canal basin

English

Noun

canal basin (plural canal basins)

1. 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, 2019–2022.