Deal, a town, one of the old Cinque ports, oil the E. of Kent, opposite the Goodwin Sands, 89 m. from London, with a fine sea-beach; much resorted to for sea-bathing quarters.
Population (circa 1900) given as 9,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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