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Definition of Bristol channel
1. Noun. An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England.
Definition of Bristol channel
1. Proper noun. an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between South Wales and England; an extension of the estuary of the River Severn ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bristol Channel
Literary usage of Bristol channel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1848)
"CARDIFF GROUNDS, bristol channel. The western end of the Sand in ... bristol channel,
called the Cardiff Grounds, having v iwn op in a SSE direction, ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1870)
"bristol channel, where no doubt large traces of the ancient British blood and
language still remained.3 The vu » PI ; See above, p. 150. ..."
3. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1881)
"THE BASIN OF THE SEVERN AND THE bristol channel. ... including therein the Avon
and other rivers tributary to the bristol channel, are distinguished, ..."
4. The Dictionary of English History edited by Frederick Sanders Pulling, Sidney Low (1896)
"... still supreme in these regions, and, by its possession of the lower Severn
valley, in communication with the " North Welsh" beyond the bristol channel. ..."
5. The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney by Godfrey Basil Mundy (1830)
"Montagu,Flat Holme*, bristol channel, ' September 21st, 1782. ... The Flat Holme
is one of two "contiguous islands, situated in the bristol channel, ..."
6. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1904)
"The vessel was wrecked in bristol channel, and Kieft and Bogardus, together with
seventy-nine other persons, were drowned. Kieft is said to have remarked, ..."
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