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Water beside UK
Answer for the clue "Water beside UK ", 9 letters:
north sea
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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 4493 Housing Units (2000): 3265 Land area (2000): 12.312477 sq. miles (31.889168 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.082324 sq. miles (2.803207 sq. km) Total area (2000): 13.394801 sq. miles (34.692375 sq. km) FIPS code: 53561 Located within: ...
Wikipedia
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North Sea or Northern Sea may refer to: North Sea , a marginal sea east of Great Britain, south of Norway, west of Denmark, north of France North Sea Region North Sea, New York Yellow Sea , in a Chinese military context. cf. East Sea (East China Sea) and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English norðsæ , usually meaning "the Bristol Channel." The application to the body of water presently so named (late 13c.) is from Dutch ( Noordzee , Middle Dutch Noortzee ); it lies to the north of Holland, where it was contrasted with the inland ...
Usage examples of north sea.
The next phase of the project was to cross the North Sea to the fishing port of Bridlington on the Yorkshire coast, where we planned to meet up with NUMA president Wayne Gronquist.
We listened to the radio a lot, and sometimes I heard the news, but it didn't seem real - little but gloom and violence, and North Sea oil the only ray of hope.
A Royal Navy fleet submarine had gone down in the North Sea two years before: The crew had died because the air purification system had suddenly failed, and the rescuers had taken too long to cut their way into the hull.
And after I found this sub while cruising on a small ketch in the North Sea—.
Hobson's letter, I no more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea.