Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

American  

noun

1. a canal between N Delaware and NE Maryland, connecting the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. About 19 miles (31 km) long.

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Example Sentences

From Annapolis, the ship will sail north to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and go out through Delaware Bay to reach the Atlantic Ocean.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023

Four years later, he was fired as chief engineer for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2011

By easy stages—the houseboat could make only ten miles an hour—they had moved down the waterway into Delaware Bay, up the Delaware River, through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and into Chesapeake Bay.

From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

They will proceed to Harrisburg, from there to Philadelphia, and thence by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal or by Perryville, as Major-General Patterson may direct.

From Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War by Brown, George William

A third step was the act of March 3, 1825, by which the United States subscribed $300,000 to the stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

From Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Hart, Albert Bushnell