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Definition of Ship route
1. Noun. A lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels.
Generic synonyms: Lane
Specialized synonyms: Saint Lawrence Seaway, St. Lawrence Seaway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ship Route
Literary usage of Ship route
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gates of the East: Ten Chapters on the Isthmus of Suez Canal by Charles Lamb Kenney (1857)
"A ship route TO INDIA, Via EGYPT. PASSENGERS, letters, and parcels, it need hardly
be said, go overland to India via Egypt; that is to say, they embark or ..."
2. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1856)
"The Euphrates Kail- way will be shorter, but not cheaper; and, indeed, it will
be much dearer than the ship route round the Cape. ..."
3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1897)
"North Atlantic ship route Lights. Monro's Tubular Boiler. NOVEMBER 20. The Boilers
of the Ohio. New French Naval College. North Atlantic ship route Lights. ..."
4. Human Geography by Joseph Russell Smith (1922)
"The great ship route.—The chief trade route of Asia is the ship route skirting
her southern shores from Suez to Yokohama. (Fig. 9. ..."
5. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1857)
"... by 5000 miles, the ship route to our eastern possessions and our eastern
markets—which would make that ship route available for steamers— which would ..."
6. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1866)
"As long as we have command of the sea it will be entirely at our mercy at both
ends ; and it will, if it is completed, give us a most excellent ship route ..."
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