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Definition of Estacades
1. estacade [n] - See also: estacade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estacades
Literary usage of Estacades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. VIth International Inland Navigation Congress, The Hague, 1894: Reports (1894)
"Dans certains cas on a intérêt à substituer aux grues des appareils divers, tels
que treuils sur estacades, élévateurs, transporteurs funiculaires, etc. ..."
2. The Court and Times of Charles the First: Illustrated by Authentic and by Cyprien de Gamaches, Thomas Birch, Cyprien, Robert Folkestone Williams (1848)
"... up with stones to have sunk them in the deepest place of the channel between
the two branches of his estacades, is come short of both those designs, ..."
3. The Dover Patrol 1915-1917 by Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (1919)
"The estacades were 490 yards long, which at eight knots gave time for two rounds
from each gun. This would have been high explosive; after which the guns ..."
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