1642
C. Vermuyden 22 A
Sasse to be set to let water into old Welland to preserve Navigation.
1662
S. Pepys 25 Jan. (1970) III. 18 Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great
sasse in the King's Lands about Deptford, to be a wett dock.
1665
W. Dodson 7 The
Sosses at Stanground,..and others,..are of singular good use, yet I do affirm, there will be a necessity of having a Soss and Sleuce near Ditton.
1861
S. Smiles I. 57 A navigable
Sasse or Sluice at Standground.