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German Ocean

British  

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

He had many vessels at sea, and Captain Bargood was as well known on the opposite side of the German Ocean as on this.

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

The money I own I could not have made myself if I had been as old as the German Ocean.'

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

By a series of brilliant campaigns he extended the Roman Empire to the German Ocean and the River Elbe, and was hence called Germanicus.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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