HUDSON BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hudson Bay mean? 

• HUDSON BAY (noun)
  The noun HUDSON BAY has 1 sense:

1. an inland sea in northern Canada

  Familiarity information: HUDSON BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUDSON BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inland sea in northern Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Holonyms ("Hudson Bay" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Fresh batches of Hudson Bay dogs were to take the places of those worthless for the trail.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He remembered the Hudson Bay Company chart he had seen long ago, and it was all clear and reasonable to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He knew it for a Hudson Bay Company gun of the young days in the Northwest, when such a gun was worth its height in beaver skins packed flat, And that was all—no hint as to the man who in an early day had reared the lodge and left the gun among the blankets.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And he conned the grub of the cache and the grub of the Hudson Bay Company post over and over again.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And south, still south, they would go, while the winter raced vainly after them, and the ice formed in the eddies, and the days grew chill and crisp, south to some warm Hudson Bay Company post, where timber grew tall and generous and there was grub without end.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)