canal basin
English
Noun
canal basin (plural canal basins)
- A broad pool of water on a canal system where barges / canal boats can moor and load or unload cargo.
- 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:
- Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.
References
- “canal basin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.