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inlet 1. a narrow inland opening of the coastline 2. a. a passage, valve, or part through which a substance, esp a fluid, enters a device or machine b. (as modifier): an inlet valve inlet [′in‚let] (engineering) An entrance or orifice for the admission of fluid. (geography) A short, narrow waterway connecting a bay or lagoon with the sea. A recess or bay in the shore of a body of water. A waterway flowing into a larger body of water. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The lesson for him was one of trust and courage; and I, who seemed to be then shut in upon a mountain-walled fiord without inlet or outlet, took the lesson home and promised myself not to lose heart again. One of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption. Northward, along the leeward coast of Malaita, the Ariel worked her leisurely way, threading the colour-riotous lagoon that lay between the shore-reefs and outer-reefs, daring passages so narrow and coral-patched that Captain Winters averred each day added a thousand grey hairs to his head, and dropping anchor off every walled inlet of the outer reef and every mangrove swamp of the mainland that looked promising of cannibal life. |
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