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Definition of Cape cod
1. Noun. A Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Cod
Literary usage of Cape cod
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Kept, on moneys expended by jt. special committee on cape cod Canal. ... Stmt.
of sums expended by state in connection with project of cape cod ship canal. ..."
2. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"W. winds, and cannot get into Plymouth, you may then run for cape cod ...
Directions for cape cod harbour. In going into cape cod harbour in the night, ..."
3. Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"... cape cod, would have been discovered much earlier by Gosnold in proceeding
down the coast. Earlier voyagers, from the time of the Northmen, had descried ..."
4. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"XXV THE OUTLINE OF cape cod NOTE. This essay attempts to restore the original
outline of cape cod by reversing the processes at work on the present outline. ..."
5. The Journal of Geography (1915)
"THE cape cod CANAL cape cod is known as the graveyard of sailormen. For 2*72
centuries cape cod has been an obstacle in our Atlantic coast-wise traffic. ..."
6. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts, Peter Sluyter, Bartlett Burleigh James (1913)
"When you have the east point to the west-southwest of you, steer straight north
to cape cod, about twenty-eight miles; but you must here time the tides, ..."
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