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euripe ‎(plural euripes)

(obsolete) A strait or channel of the sea.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:
  I will first see whether that relation of the friar of Oxford be true, concerning those northern parts under the Pole […] whether there be such four euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way […].

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