Both Uses
The Thames
in
The Railway Children
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- And she had never seen any river at all except the Thames, which also would be all the better if its face was washed.†
p. 68.6 *The Thames = the longest river entirely in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea
- 'I know,' said Mother, 'there are locks on the Thames.†
p. 158.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(The Thames) the longest river entirely in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)