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narrows

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Word definitions for narrows in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A narrow part of a navigable waterway. vb. (en-third-person singular of: narrow)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Narrow \Nar"row\, n.; pl. Narrows . A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"narrow place in a river, etc.," 1630s, plural of narrow (n.).

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2111 Housing Units (2000): 971 Land area (2000): 1.279603 sq. miles (3.314156 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.055472 sq. miles (0.143672 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.335075 sq. miles (3.457828 sq. km) FIPS code: 54904 Located within: Virginia ...

Usage examples of narrows.

This serrated range of peaks and canyons extended from back of North Vancouver, across Burrard Inlet, past The Narrows for several miles to the lighthouse promontory in the Bay of Georgia.

He followed his unconscious murderers in the direction of the frothing Narrows and the barrier rim of mountains.

It spread its greasy denseness through The Narrows and far out over the Bay of Georgia.

As he returned, the corpse and the three live men who had been in the air close to The Narrows had disappeared.

This was safely out of the tidal channel, but close to The Narrows on the harbor side.

Directly opposite Stanley Park Point on The Narrows was the broad sand-and-gravel bar marking the mouth of a creek.

Jim Narrows had passed the story down the wire until there were a lot of people laughing in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, and even Denver.

He had found occasion to shove Narrows around and had enjoyed taunting the older man.

Jim Narrows was not a vindictive man, but neither was he a man likely to forget.

He fancied that the cove at the narrows was the Perfume River, and the lighted boats were sampans gliding down to the South China Sea.

Tyson said, 'How about the night we were screwing in the rubber raft and we floated through the narrows into the lower cove?

Across the Narrows, a mile away where the bridge was anchored on the far shore of Staten Island, was Fort Wadsworth, which, like Hamilton, held an old coastal artillery battery, built to protect the sea approaches to New York Harbor.

Below he could see the new dining wing to his right, the Shore Parkway beyond that, then the Narrows, spanned by the Verrazano Bridge.

They drove down an incline towards the Narrows, passed a dock, and pulled up to the foreboding granite walls of Battery Weed.

The Narrows, according to the map, was a one-lane chute with twelve-foot high barricades on either side.