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Solent

noun
1.
A strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.





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"Solent" Quotes from Famous Books



... his skipper, Jasper Begg, had shipped him to sail for the Pacific Ocean. A pleasure voyage, the papers said; and some remembered that I had been in and out of private yachts ever since I ran away from school and booked with Skipper Higg, who sailed Lord Kanton's schooner from the Solent; but others asked themselves what pleasure took a yacht's skipper beyond the Suez, and how it came about that a poor man like Jasper Begg found the money to commission a 500-ton tramp through Philips, Westbury, and Co., and to deal liberally with ...
— The House Under the Sea - A Romance • Sir Max Pemberton


Words linked to "Solent" :   English Channel, strait, sound


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