Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 300 km (185 mi) long, of southeast Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway, about 385 km (240 mi) long, which connects Lake Ontario with Georgian Bay.
- A river, about 275 km (170 mi) long, of central England flowing generally northeast to join the Ouse River and form the Humber estuary.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber
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Examples
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Hobbs, 64, lives in Trenton, N.C., a town that straddles the Trent River about 40 miles from North Carolina's Atlantic coast.
The Rivers Of Death 2008
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The forces under General Foster left New Berne on Thursday, the 11th, and moved up the Trent road, along the Trent River, about ten miles, when the division halted for the night.
Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862 W. W. [Editor] Howe
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Lincolnshire, and its eastern boundary was the Trent River.
A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger
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Erie and Niagara; the Lake Simcoe portage routes by the Trent River system, and the Holland River and Toronto were also used.
The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot James H. Coyne
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One of the principle streets extended from the bank of the rivier Neuse straight on into the forest and the other principle street crossed it, running from the Trent River clear to the Neuse River.
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It is well known that the Coree, together with their close allies, the hostile Tuscarora, in 1711 took vengeance on the Swiss and Palatines settled on Trent River, killing about 70 of them, wounding many others,
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According to De Graffenried, Surveyor Gen. Lawson in 1709-10 settled his people, the Swiss and Palatines, on the south bank of Trent River, on a tongue of land called Chattawka, formed by the Trent and the Neuse in North Carolina, in a hot and unhealthful situation.
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The fact that the New Bern Industrial and Collegiate Institute was located just across the Trent River in New Bern and directed and controlled by an able and energetic young man, Rev. Weeks, stood in the way of the progress of the Atlantic and North Carolina Institute.
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There was a strong effort to unite the school supported by the New Bern Eastern Association, located just across the Trent River, and the New Bern Collegiate and Industrial Institute, but the effort proved a failure.
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Ontario across to Huron by way of Lake Simcoe and the Trent River, in either route avoiding Niagara altogether, paths that would shorten the water distance by hundreds of miles and bring Europe almost as near to the shores where Le Caron ministered to the Hurons as to New York City.
The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901
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