Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cheat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana
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Examples
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Down the hallway, through another pieflap, a fellow participant in Wabash’s “Shakespeare in the SHU” program voices his appreciation: “I really like the metaphor you use.
Prison Porn 2010
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Down the hallway, through another pieflap, a fellow participant in Wabash’s “Shakespeare in the SHU” program voices his appreciation: “I really like the metaphor you use.
Prison Porn 2010
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Mr. HEAT-MOON: Well, the O-- the Wabash is a river that -- that still has serious problems with pollution, as does the Ohio, as do all of our -- most of our rivers.
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There never was a train called the Wabash Cannonball that went
Wabash Cannonball Traditional 1969
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There never was a train called the Wabash Cannonball that went
Wabash Cannonball Traditional 1969
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And the keen blue eyes, sometimes gazing with a far-away, unbusiness-like look out into the grimy, roaring cañon called Wabash Avenue, sometimes twinkling with unbusinesslike mischief, inevitably completed the exposure of Roger Payne.
The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902
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Nobody could call Wabash Avenue spectacular, and nobody surely would assert that State Street is on a plane with the collective achievements of the city of which it is the principal thoroughfare.
Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899
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It was the splendid river which the Indians called the Wabash, or Beautiful River, and the
Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877
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The Wabash is a very beautiful river, four hundred yards wide at the mouth, and three hundred at St. Vincennes, which is a post one hundred miles above the mouth, in a direct line.
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The Wabash is a very beautiful river, 400 yards wide at the mouth, and 300 at St. Vincennes, which is a post 100 miles above the mouth, in a direct line.
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