roadstead

suomi-englanti sanakirja

roadstead englannista suomeksi

1. ankkurointipaikka

0. Substantiivi

1. reti, redi

roadstead englanniksi

1. A partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour. (defdate)

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2. {{quote-book|en|year=1798|author=George Vancouver|title=A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World|location=London|publisher=G.G. and J. Robinson|volume=I|chapter=V|page=248|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=_F8vAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

3. (RQ:Stevenson Dynamiter) I found we were lying in a roadstead among many low and rocky islets, hovered about by an innumerable cloud of sea-fowl.

4. (RQ:Melville Billy Budd) ''that'' was the time when at the mast-heads of the three-deckers and seventy-fours moored in her own roadstead (..) the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out (..)

5. (RQ:Lawrence Sons and Lovers)

6. {{quote-book|en|year=1992|author=Andaya|Leonard Y. Andaya|chapter=Interactions with the Outside World and Adaptation in Southeast Asian Society, 1500-1800|editor=Nicholas Tarling|title=The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=1|page=349