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roadstead

[rohd-sted]

noun

Nautical.
  1. road.



roadstead

/ ˈrəʊdˌstɛd /

noun

  1. nautical another word for road

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Word History and Origins

Origin of roadstead1

First recorded in 1325–75, roadstead is from the Middle English word radestede. See road, stead
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Example Sentences

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Two light cruisers and the USS Utah lay off its starboard bow, and Battleship Row, the famed but vulnerable roadstead for the Navy’s mightiest, was on the other side of Ford Island.

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Container ships and oil tankers, waiting for a berth, are assigned a place to anchor in the roadstead off Long Beach and Huntington Harbor.

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The oarsmen were coming aboard now, for the ship was to go out into the roadstead before night fell, and sail with the ebbtide near dawn.

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Boarding suspicious vessels in the open roadstead hardened his nerves and gave an unwonted zest to his work.

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There is no harbor, but an open roadstead; and 332 here a whole fleet of ships were riding at anchor—ships of war and merchant ships from all parts of the world.

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