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Definition of Lake Saint Clair

1. Noun. A lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Saint Clair

Literary usage of Lake Saint Clair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The Saint Clair River connects Lake Huron and Lake Saint Clair. It is 40 miles long. Its channel is from 20 to 22 feet deep and has a width of 400 to 2400 ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The river is the outlet of Lake Huron, and discharges its waters by several channels into Lake Saint Clair. The delta at the mouth is known as the Saint ..."

3. A New Gazetteer of the United States of America ...: Including by William Darby, Theodore Dwight (1833)
"Staples of this parish, sugar, rice, and cotton. ils entrance into lake Saint Clair. The lower part of St. Clair r. is a real delta, the water separating ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"... into Lake Saint Clair (qv) through a fan-shaped delta of seven channels (Map: Michigan. L 0). The river itself is navigable, and one of the delta ..."

5. A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Compiled edited by Royal Geographical Society Great Britain (1856)
"CLAIR (SAINT), a river of North America issuing from Lake Huron, and flowing by a number of arms into the NE side of Lake Saint Clair. ..."

6. Reports of Committees by United States Congress. Senate (1874)
"The cost would lie comparatively small, the deepening of the flats and of Lake Saint Clair, where needed, being a matter of dredging soft mud ..."

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