Charleston
['tʃa:lstən]
Definition
(noun.) an American ballroom dance in syncopated rhythm; popular early in the 20th century.
(noun.) a port city in southeastern South Carolina.
(noun.) state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river.
(verb.) dance the Charleston.
Typed by Edwina--From WordNet
Examples
- Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The cavalry, however, were to threaten Charleston on the right, and Augusta on the left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Memphis and Charleston railroad was held, while the Mississippi Central was given up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Charleston was evacuated on the 18th of February, and Foster garrisoned the place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Rosecrans had previously had his headquarters at Iuka, where his command was spread out along the Memphis and Charleston railroad eastward. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Foster, commanding Department of the South, also sent an expedition, via Broad River, to destroy the railroad between Charleston and Savannah. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This column, in moving north, threatened Charleston, and, indeed, it was not determined at first that they would have a force visit Charleston. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Pope's left commanded the Memphis and Charleston railroad east of Corinth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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