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A liquid highway where freighters bigger than skyscrapers cruise through farmland to reach the ocean.
means A navigable channel or route across the sea — or an inland waterway, often deepened and engineered, that lets ocean-going ships travel far from the coast.
from A plain English compound of 'sea' and 'way,' both ancient Germanic words: 'sea' traces back to Old English 'sǣ' and 'way' to Old English 'weġ' (a path or road, a cousin of Latin 'via'). So a seaway is literally 'a sea-road' — the same straightforward stitching that gives us 'highway' and 'pathway.' The poetic sense of a route across open water is old, but the engineering sense (think the St. Lawrence Seaway) is a modern application of a very old word.
- locks count
- St. Lawrence Seaway uses 15 locks to climb 600 feet
- opened
- Officially launched in 1959 by Queen and Eisenhower
- frozen shut
- Closes every winter when ice locks the route
- inland ocean
- Lets ships sail from Atlantic to Great Lakes
- ship size
- Lakers stretch up to 740 feet long
manchester ship canal — 36-mile canal in england opened in 1894, made manchester an inland port without needing to go through liverpool