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catawba
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catawba \Ca*taw"ba\, n.
A well known light red variety of American grape.
A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.
Catawbas \Ca*taw"bas\, n. pl.; sing. Catawba. (Ethnol.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.
Fox \Fox\ (f[o^]ks), n.; pl. Foxes. [AS. fox; akin to D. vos, G. fuchs, OHG. fuhs, foha, Goth. fa['u]h[=o], Icel. f[=o]a fox, fox fraud; of unknown origin, cf. Skr. puccha tail. Cf. Vixen.]
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(Zo["o]l.) A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canid[ae], of many species. The European fox ( V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox ( V. fulvus), the American gray fox ( V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox ( V. lagopus) are well-known species.
Note: The black or silver-gray fox is a variety of the American red fox, producing a fur of great value; the cross-gray and woods-gray foxes are other varieties of the same species, of less value. The common foxes of Europe and America are very similar; both are celebrated for their craftiness. They feed on wild birds, poultry, and various small animals.
Subtle as the fox for prey.
--Shak. (Zo["o]l.) The European dragonet.
(Zo["o]l.) The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
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A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.]
We call a crafty and cruel man a fox.
--Beattie. (Naut.) Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
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A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox. [Obs.]
Thou diest on point of fox.
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pl. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies. Fox and geese.
A boy's game, in which one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another.
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A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose first position is in the middle of the board, endeavors to break through the line of the geese, and the geese to pen up the fox. Fox bat (Zo["o]l.), a large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of many species, inhabiting Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, esp. P. medius of India. Some of the species are more than four feet across the outspread wings. See Fruit bat. Fox bolt, a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge. Fox brush (Zo["o]l.), the tail of a fox. Fox evil, a disease in which the hair falls off; alopecy. Fox grape (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape ( Vitis Labrusca) is the origin of the varieties called Isabella, Concord, Hartford, etc., and the southern fox grape ( Vitis vulpina) has produced the Scuppernong, and probably the Catawba. Fox hunter.
One who pursues foxes with hounds.
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A horse ridden in a fox chase.
Fox shark (Zo["o]l.), the thrasher shark. See Thrasher shark, under Thrasher.
Fox sleep, pretended sleep.
Fox sparrow (Zo["o]l.), a large American sparrow ( Passerella iliaca); -- so called on account of its reddish color.
Fox squirrel (Zo["o]l.), a large North American squirrel ( Sciurus niger, or S. cinereus). In the Southern States the black variety prevails; farther north the fulvous and gray variety, called the cat squirrel, is more common.
Fox terrier (Zo["o]l.), one of a peculiar breed of terriers, used in hunting to drive foxes from their holes, and for other purposes. There are rough- and smooth-haired varieties.
Fox trot, a pace like that which is adopted for a few steps, by a horse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk.
Fox wedge (Mach. & Carpentry), a wedge for expanding the split end of a bolt, cotter, dowel, tenon, or other piece, to fasten the end in a hole or mortise and prevent withdrawal. The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down upon it. Fastening by fox wedges is called foxtail wedging.
Fox wolf (Zo["o]l.), one of several South American wild dogs, belonging to the genus Canis. They have long, bushy tails like a fox.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of American grape, 1857, the name is that of a river in South Carolina, U.S., where the grape was found. The river is named for the Katahba Indian group and language (Siouan), from katapu "fork of a stream," itself a Muskogean loan-word.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Common name for the catawba grape, a cultivar of North American ''Vitis labrusca''. 2 Original and alternate common name for the various species of catalpa trees ''Catalpa''. 3 The Catawba rhododendron ((taxlink Rhododendron catawbiense species noshow=1)).
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 285
Land area (2000): 2.286211 sq. miles (5.921259 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.056293 sq. miles (0.145799 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.342504 sq. miles (6.067058 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10980
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.709853 N, 81.075734 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28609
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Headwords:
Catawba
Housing Units (2000): 112
Land area (2000): 0.255479 sq. miles (0.661688 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.255479 sq. miles (0.661688 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12560
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.999900 N, 83.622185 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Catawba
Housing Units (2000): 79
Land area (2000): 4.455550 sq. miles (11.539820 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.455550 sq. miles (11.539820 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13175
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.535969 N, 90.530445 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54515
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Headwords:
Catawba
Housing Units (2000): 59919
Land area (2000): 399.967559 sq. miles (1035.911179 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.541723 sq. miles (35.072900 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 413.509282 sq. miles (1070.984079 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.695613 N, 81.247567 W
Headwords:
Catawba, NC
Catawba County
Catawba County, NC
Wikipedia
Catawba may refer to several things:
- Catawba people, a Native American tribe in the Carolinas
- Catawban languages
Catawba is a red American grape variety used for wine as well as juice, jams and jellies. The grape can have a pronounced musky or " foxy" flavor. Grown predominantly on the East Coast of the United States, this purplish-red grape is a likely cross of the Native American Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera. Its exact origins and parentage are unclear but it seems to have originated somewhere on the East coast from the Carolinas to Maryland.
Catawba played an important role in the early history of American wine. During the early to mid-19th century, it was the most widely planted grape variety in the country and was the grape behind Nicholas Longworth's acclaimed Ohio sparkling wines that were distributed as far away as California and Europe.
Catawba is a late-ripening variety, ripening often weeks after many other labrusca varieties and, like many vinifera varieties, it can be susceptible to fungal grape diseases such as powdery mildew.
Usage examples of "catawba".
After all, it is not so different from our tongue, not nearly as hard as Catawba or Maskogi or Shawano.
Without hesitating, he grabbed a long pole from the meat-drying racks and went after the nearest Catawba with it, jabbing him hard in the guts with the end, exactly as you would use a spear, and then clubbing him over the head.
His head was slightly elongated from an ancient Catawba custom of binding the heads of their infants.
From a branch of the dreaded Sioux, this Catawba was one of the fast-dwindling warlike tribe that hunted game and enemies up and down the length of the sprawling Catawba River.
It was not the single native quality of the usual crowd that one saw on the station platforms of the typical Catawba town as the trains passed through.
New England knows, if one came here as many a lonely youth had come here in the past, some boy from the inland immensity of America, some homesick lad from the South, from the marvellous hills of Old Catawba, he might be pierced again by the bitter ecstasy of youth, the ecstasy that tears him apart with a cry that has no tongue, the ecstasy that is proud, lonely, and exultant, that is fierce with joy and a moment, that the intangible cannot be touched, the ungraspable cannot be grasped--the imperial and magnificent minute is gone for ever which, with all its promises, its million intuitions, he wishes to clothe with the living substance of beauty.
Old Catawba, he had known and felt these things and, in spite of his frequent bitter attacks on the people, the climate, the life, New England was the place to which he had returned to live, and for which he felt the most affection.
Cowans Ford had been a river crossing used by the Catawba tribe in the 1600s, and later by the Cherokee.
In the early 1960s the Duke Power Company had dammed the Catawba River at Cowans Ford and created Lake Norman, which stretches almost thirty-four miles.
Stanly County, the best county in all the Carolinas even though my dear wife does come from Catawba County, God bless her, and how are you?
We had forded the Catawba River and were skirting the northwestern flank of an odd rectangular plateaumaking as rapid a progress as we could, since we were expecting a pursuit of some kind in the absence of an eruptionwhen a terrible earthquake occurred.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, was not a lawyer, but he was the squire of lands totaling twenty thousand acres, stretching all the way from the Catawba River.
John Hennessee, who had substantial land grants along the Catawba River and elsewhere.
I remember that the Eastern Creeks used to often war against the Santee, the Pedee, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Cheraw, the Lumbee, the Sugaree, and the Waccamaw, all of which were allies of the mighty Catawba, but not even they were able to stand for long against the steel-breasts and their fire-sticks, fire-logs, and such deadly wonders.
New Orleans, or eaten himself ill, as we nearly did ourselves, on a generous mixture of clam-chowder, terrapin, soft-shelled crabs, Jersey peaches, canvas-backed ducks, Catawba wine, winter cherries, brandy cocktails, strawberry-shortcake, ice-creams, corn-dodger, and a judicious brew commonly known as a Colorado corpse-reviver.