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tuscarora

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tuscaroras \Tus`ca*ro"ras\, n. pl.; sing. Tuscarora . (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus ...

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 939 Housing Units (2000): 488 Land area (2000): 3.589120 sq. miles (9.295779 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.001003 sq. miles (0.002599 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.590123 sq. miles (9.298378 sq. km) FIPS code: 77968 Located within: Pennsylvania ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Iroquoian people originally inhabiting what is now North Carolina, 1640s, from Catawba (Siouan) /taskarude:/ , literally "dry-salt eater," a folk-etymologizing of the people's name for themselves, Tuscarora (Iroquoian) /skaru:re/ , literally "hemp-gatherers." ...

Usage examples of tuscarora.

Tuscarora, though you do see Leni Lenapes and a few Shawanos with lighter hair.

His hair was dark brown rather than black, which I thought was unusual for a Tuscarora, though you do see Leni Lenapes and a few Shawanos with lighter hair.

Another Mohawk fell, and the remainder, ailer suffering horribly from the keen knife of Nick, as well as from blows received from each other, dragged themselves away, leaving the field to the Tuscarora.

Tuscarora in your company there, who has art and malice enough to spoil the character of any tribe with which he consorts, though he found the Mingos ready ruined to his hands, I fear.

They are the Onondagas, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras.

But Tuscarora warrior nebber take scalp of Tuscarora squaw and pappoose!

After them, in order of precedence, came the chiefs of the three junior nations, the Oneidas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras.

Making a hurried gesture for the Tuscarora girl to conceal herself, Mabel sprang from the bushes and tripped up the glade towards the sound, and perceived that the whole party had just seated themselves at breakfast.

With a strong and constant demand for slaves from the colonies to the south, their seasonal predations on Shawnee, Tuscarora, Southern Cherokee, and Eastern Chickasaw clans and tribes had not only fattened their Cuban accounts, but had allowed them to clear more lands, bring in more colonists, and begin thus to produce more grain and suchlike than was needed by the settlements, this giving them other exports than slaves, furs, hides, timber and other natural products.