[1790–1800, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backhanded, echelon, idealism, ideology, peanut
Examples of 'ship canal' in a sentence
ship canal
All that, though, is down on the trendy waterfront by the ship canal.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The city centre is more vivid and busy than it was in the grey 1980s and the ship canal has come back to life.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
They glower defiantly at each other from opposite ends of a ship canal whose very construction was a two-fingered gesture from one to another.