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German Ocean

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noun

  1. a former name for the North Sea

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

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

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

The length of German coast on the North Sea or German Ocean is 293 m., and on the Baltic 927 m., the intervening land boundary on the north of Schleswig being only 47 m.

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

There he lay for several hours exhausted and insensible, unwitting of the storm from the German Ocean that was raging among the sandhills near its shores.

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

In their country the Thames rises, and, proceeding through the territories of the Hedui, Atrebates, Cassii, Bibroci, Trinobantes, and Cantii, after a long course flows into the German Ocean.

From Old English Chronicles by Various