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Fairway

The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.

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Itinerary 76% connected

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey.

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Parcel 76% connected

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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Path 76% connected

A trodden way; a footway.

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

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Site 76% connected

The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

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Tract 76% connected

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.

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Apron 70% connected

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or…

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