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Hell Gate

narrow channel of the East River, N.Y., between Manhattan & Queens

Etymology: < Du Helle Gat, hell strait: from the whirlpools formerly there

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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