Those produced by coral animals; they are of various shapes, belted with coral, frequently with channels by which ships may enter, and lie safely inside. They are often studded with the cocoa-nut palm. (See atolls.)
·noun A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lago...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An inland broad expanse of salt water, usually shallow, and connected with the sea by one or more ch...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Blind alleys, courts, or bye-ways; perhaps from the houses built there being cribbed out of the comm...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A privy. Stink-hole bay or dilberry creek. The fundament. ...
Generally found on Spanish charts as Hormigas. ...
A lake or inlet formed by the encroachments of the sea, and the deposits of fluviatile action. ...