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German Ocean

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noun

  1. a former name for the North Sea

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It wasn’t long before another sensation joined them, as the vessel began to roll in the German Ocean swell.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

“That’s like the bloody German Ocean out there.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

It was constructed by King Louis I. of Bavaria in order to unite the German Ocean and the Black Sea, and extends from the Main at Bamberg to Kelheim on the Danube.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

Taking a wider range we get a distant glimpse of the wide Atlantic, and the coast of green Erin, the mountains of Cumberland, and the German Ocean, washing the north-eastern coasts of Scotland.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

These served to break the east winds which blew over the German Ocean, in their terrible night-watches, which they were forced to keep pretty constantly, as they were watched, though they were watchers.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

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