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What is a roadstead?

What is a roadstead? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (nautical) A partly-sheltered anchorage outside a harbour.
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About five it returned, gentle enough, enabling us to head for the roadstead.
A lighted torch like the one brandished by the Statue of Liberty in the roadstead of New York is sculpted on each of the boundary stones.
Two days later this same locomotive accidentally toppled over a roadstead at the harbour of Quebec dragging to death the penitent of two days.
The port area is relatively shallow, and tenders serve larger ships at a roadstead in Poverty Bay.
The ships then sailed to Blind Bay and anchored in the Astrolabe roadstead.
The expansionist policy of Bonaparte highlighted again the particular strategic rĂ´le of Taranto's port and roadstead.

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