Delaware
['deləwɛə]
Definition
(noun.) the Algonquian language spoken by the Delaware.
(noun.) a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.
(noun.) one of the British colonies that formed the United States.
(noun.) a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay.
(noun.) a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania.
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Definition
(n.) An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- This was imported from England, and arrived in New York in May, 1829, and was tried in that year on a section of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s railroad. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In my youth, I was passenger in a little sloop descending the river Delaware. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The same year Oliver Evans used a stern paddle wheel boat on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- William Penn found that they had long been at work on the Delaware when he reached its shores in 1682. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Once, in a boat on the Delaware, with some other young men, he refused to row in his turn: I will be rowed home, said he. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In this predicament he ventured on the hazardous experiment of taking his steam-vessel by sea, and successfully accomplished his voyage from New York to Delaware. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I had a brother-in-law, Robert Holmes, master of a sloop that traded between Boston and Delaware. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His lands are on navigable water, communicating with the Delaware, and but about 16 miles from this city. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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