Sheerness
noun
1.
a seaport in N Kent, in SE England on the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of the Thames: government dockyards.
noun
1.
a port and resort in SE England, in N Kent at the junction of the Medway estuary and the Thames: administratively part of Queenborough in Sheppey since 1968
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