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Grand Banks 
the extensive shoals, or bank (def. 1), lying southeast of Newfoundland, famous as cod-fishing grounds.
See also: bank ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 1) Banks (def. 2) Great Banks
- 1935 To the south and east of the island [Newfoundland] one hundred miles or so lies the famous Great Grand Bank . . . some eighty thousand square miles in area. . . .
- 1962 Doughty Nova Scotian sailors loaded their schooners with codfish from the Newfoundland Grand Banks and timber from the forests of the Maritimes. . . .
- 1935 To the south and east of the island [Newfoundland] one hundred miles or so lies the famous Great Grand Bank . . . some eighty thousand square miles in area. . . .