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navigable

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navigable
1. wide, deep, or safe enough to be sailed on or through
2. capable of being steered or controlled


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Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
This island seems formed by nature to be the mistress of Greece, for it is entirely surrounded by a navigable ocean which washes almost all the maritime parts of that country, and is not far distant on the one side from Peloponnesus, on the other, which looks towards Asia, from Triopium and Rhodes.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
These men painted that hideous wilderness in charming colours, told us that we should find a country watered with navigable rivers, and inhabited by a people that would either inform us of the way, or accompany us in it.
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context
 
 
 
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