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nun' bu"oy

Pronunciation: (nun), [key]
a conical, unlighted buoy used as a channel marker, esp. on the starboard side of a channel entering from seaward. Cf. can buoy. See illus. under buoy.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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