"Goodwin Sands" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Goodwin Sands"
      },
      "expansion": "Goodwin Sands",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              184,
              197
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The chapel”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea, lying 6 miles (10 km) off the Deal coast in Kent, England."
      ],
      "id": "en-Goodwin_Sands-en-name-npihfsSg",
      "links": [
        [
          "sandbank",
          "sandbank"
        ],
        [
          "North Sea",
          "North Sea"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Goodwin Sands"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Goodwin Sands"
      },
      "expansion": "Goodwin Sands",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              184,
              197
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The chapel”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea, lying 6 miles (10 km) off the Deal coast in Kent, England."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sandbank",
          "sandbank"
        ],
        [
          "North Sea",
          "North Sea"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Goodwin Sands"
}