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Answer for the clue "Arboreal carnivore, or Manitoba river ", 6 letters:
fisher

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 4344 Housing Units (2000): 2277 Land area (2000): 901.160622 sq. miles (2333.995197 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.581034 sq. miles (1.504872 sq. km) Total area (2000): 901.741656 sq. miles (2335.500069 sq. km) Located within: Texas (TX), ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fisher is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba , Canada . It was created for the 1920 provincial election , and eliminated with the 1969 election . The constituency was located in mid-northern Manitoba, in the Interlake region. There have ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English fiscere "fisherman; kingfisher," agent noun from fish (v.). It began to be used of certain animals, hence perhaps the rise of the formation fisherman (1520s). Similar formation in Old Saxon fiskari , Old Frisian fisker , Dutch visscher , German ...

Usage examples of fisher.

Fisher of Beverly, but he followed the aphorism of the Father of Medicine, and kept extreme remedies for extreme cases.

Behind the flippant words Ardagh was making the point that war was a bitter business and, more politely than Fisher, was ridiculing the notion that it could be civilized.

Fisher called to mind his mnemonic, fixed in place chemically with Forget-Me-Not rather than in his biochip where it could incriminate him, and began to manually reprogram the first missile.

The Rebels held the strong forts of Caswell and Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and outside, the Frying Pan Shoals, which extended along the coast forty or fifty miles, kept our blockading fleet so far off, and made the line so weak and scattered, that there was comparatively little risk to the small, swift-sailing vessels employed by the blockade runners in running through it.

Penobscot Building and the second Buhl Building colored like an Indian belt, the New Union Trust Building, the Cadillac Tower, the Fisher Building with its gilded roof.

Ready to fall at every step, he blundered through the water, which now spread over the whole place, and followed by Dorothy in mute agony, was making for the shed behind which lay his boat, when one of the salmon fishers, who had brought his coble in at the gap, crossed them, and took them up.

In the huts of Fisher Row strange folk, dingy as waterweeds, were getting ready their cobles and fishing-gear against the next fast-day.

Outside in the grounds, Major Comber and Major de Tournay were trying desperately to restore some kind of order to the chaos Fisher had made out of the men-at-arms.

Fisher said, nodding to Desai as he stepped past her on his way through the door.

Startled by the outburst, Desai and Moyer looked up to the spectator stands situated one level above the court to see Ezekiel Fisher regarding them from where he sat reclined in one of the seats.

Fisher replied, waiting until his colleague had left the morgue before turning to Desai and offering a sly smile.

Fisher actually felt relieved that Reyes finally had brought Desai into the fold, in a manner of speaking.

That Desai was that counsel and not Fisher himself did nothing to bruise his perceived standing with his friend.

The final adjustment of the etalon resisted Fisher, the interference fringes drifting from their operational points before he could lock down the system.

Fisher concentrated on the men first, spending a good deal of Thursday and much of Friday morning ruling them out as Faud Daraghmeh.