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Suez Canal

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What does Suez Canal mean?

proper noun

  1. A canal in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

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The boat was now somewhere south of the Suez Canal on her way to Australia.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
Since that time Europeans have cut a waterway for ships through this narrow neck of land, which is called the Suez Canal.
Edith A. HowPeople of AfricaProject Gutenberg ebook #6693
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De Lesseps had finished the Suez Canal and was examining Panama.
Herbert Newton CassonThe History of the TelephoneProject Gutenberg ebook #819
The Suez Canal being now open, our friends the Messrs.
Samuel SmilesMen of Invention and IndustryProject Gutenberg ebook #725
They are regularly used too in the Suez Canal.
Lawrence BeesleyThe Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its LessonsProject Gutenberg ebook #6675