Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
caw .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb See
caw .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of a
Native American tribe. - noun 2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900,
ISBN 0803267517 , page 20:
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Examples
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There is a Missouri City, Missouri and the Kansas River is sometimes referred to as the Kaw River.
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E. Kansa or Kan´-ze (refers to winds, though precise significance is unknown; frequently called Kaw), on Kansas reservation, Indian
The Siouan Indians 1882
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From that day I was called the Kaw chief, even by Hassard in his letters to the
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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We considered ourselves to be too young to be called Kaw valley hemp pickers and not all that into it all that much, so we called ourselves the Kaw river drifters.
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As we passed through the reservation of the "Kaw" Indians -- the Kansas aborigines -- our artist could not refrain from capturing a few types, and has faithfully sketched for us the little grave by the wayside, with the slain horses lying upon it, and the flag floating over it, to mark it as the resting-place of a chieftain; the stone house which the graceless Kaw has turned into a stable for his pony; and the warrior galloping across the field in the midst of a pouring rain.
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The frustration of dealing with a novice Googler video Holy Kaw!
Daily Dispatch: Hints of an Apple Mobile Social Network; Mobile allows time-shifting of reading 2011
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I'd say Lake Kaw, Oklahoma. it's right on the border between Oklahoma and Kansas.
whats your favorite place to fish, for what, and with what. 2010
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I'd say Lake Kaw, Oklahoma. it's right on the border between Oklahoma and Kansas.
whats your favorite place to fish, for what, and with what. 2010
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Snagged this 75lb spoonbill in the Arkansas River below Kaw Reservoir.
Field & Stream 2009
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But the names have stayed largely the same: this issue features Wayne Wightman, who I remember from the edgy "The Metaphysical Gun" in 1986, and recent issues have featured Bradley Denton, whose "Sin-Eater of the Kaw" resonated with me deeply in my youth, and Marc Laidlaw, whose "Uneasy Street" I loved.
READING: F&SF (Jun/Jul 2009), New Yorker (May 25, 2009), darkerblogistan 2009
mollusque commented on the word Kaw
Talking crow in The Chronicles of Prydain
January 30, 2010