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Definition of Aboiteaux
1. aboiteau [n] - See also: aboiteau
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aboiteaux
Literary usage of Aboiteaux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from Nova Scotia: Comprising Sketches of a Young Country by William Scarth Moorsom (1830)
"... Second, or Southern ; Third, or North-western.—LAND.—Upland. —Intervale.
— Saltmarsh—Dyked marsh. — aboiteaux— TILLAGE—Crops—Manures—Rotations—A ..."
2. The Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia by Nova Scotia, William Young (1851)
"... or drain such lands, or to secure the same from brooks, rivers, or the sea,
by aboiteaux or breakwaters, or in any way they may think proper, ..."
3. Canada 2002 by Wayne C. Thompson (2003)
"The site also includes a smithy and a placard explaining the principal behind
the dykes and "aboiteaux" (sluice gates) developed by the Acadians before they ..."
4. Advanced Guide Canada's Atlantic Provinces by Barbara Radcliffe Rogers, Stillman Rogers (2005)
"The Sackville Information Centre can give you a copy of the Bird-Finding Guide
to help you locate the best places. THE ACADIAN aboiteaux The early Acadian ..."
5. Cours D'histoire Du Canada by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland (1882)
"... occupés entièrement de leurs terres; au moyen des aboiteaux, ils avaient enlevé
à la mer de fertiles terrains, qui produisaient abondamment le blé, ..."
6. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1911)
"66—Construction of dykes and aboiteaux —Prescription—Lost grant. Sec. 3 of the
Cumberland Sewers Act (being practically the Marsh Act as applied to the ..."
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