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fairway
/ˈfɛɹweɪ/
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What does fairway mean?
noun
- The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
- Any tract of land free from obstacles.
- A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6)
More meanings (1)
noun
- A navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈfɛɹweɪ/
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Lights of ships moved in the fairway—a great stir of lights going up and going down.
“Come forward, Christian, and show yourself. I didn’t know you were here,” said Fairway, with a humane look across towards that quarter.
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By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was still sweeping me down; and there lay the HISPANIOLA right in the fairway, hardly to be missed.
With little room in which to turn, the Spray, in gathering headway, scratched the paint off an old, fine-weather craft in the fairway, being puttied and painted for a summer voyage.
After a storm a fringe of weed and driftwood stretches a serried line along the sands, and now and then--too often on the flat shores of one of our northern estuaries, whence can be seen the white teeth of the sea biting at the shoals flanking the fairway--are mingled with the flotsam sodden relics of life aboard ship and driftwood of tell-tale shape, which silently point to a tragedy of the sea.