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Penobscot   /pənˈɑbskɑt/   Listen
Penobscot

noun
1.
A member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine.
2.
A river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay.  Synonym: Penobscot River.



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"Penobscot" Quotes from Famous Books



... sufficiently punished to merit even our pity. With blasted characters and ruined fortunes, they are seeking new habitations under the line or near the pole. Numerous cargoes of them are sent to the West Indies and Halifax, to St Augustine and Penobscot. ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII • Various
... pomp of names, like an Indian war march begun: Athabasca, Wyoming, Tahoe, Niobrara, Mohawk, Sioux City, Nemaha, Hiawatha, Seneca, Chippewa, Chicago, Saskatchewan, Pepacton ("meeting of waters"), Winnepeg, Cheyenne, Manitoba, Penobscot, Narragansett, Chicopee, Manhattan, and a host besides, a numberless procession. Indian names cling with peculiar tenacity to lakes and rivers; for those hunters knew all waters, and hunted beside all streams and lakes. They ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle


Words linked to "Penobscot" :   river, ME, Pine Tree State, Penobscot Bay, Maine, Algonquian, Penobscot River, Algonquin


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