Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northeast Virginia rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains and flowing about 340 km (210 mi) generally southeast to form a long estuary that empties into Chesapeake Bay.
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- noun a river that flows across eastern Virginia into the Tidewater region
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Examples
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Jackson Miller R-Manassas to be penalized after Miller submitted legislation that prohibits menhaden fishing in the Rappahannock River -- something Pollard claims will impact the economy in his region.
Northern Neck delegate seeks revenge on fellow legislator Jennifer Buske 2011
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A flood warning is also in effect to our southwest for the Rappahannock River at Remington affecting Fauquier and Culpeper counties and around Fredericksburg.
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Lee retired to an estate he purchased overlooking the Rappahannock River and sought, unsuccessfully, for a wife to reside there with him.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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In a separate incident, a woman was killed after a boat she was in struck a channel marker in the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County late Monday, according to a Virginian-Pilot report.
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Lee retired to an estate he purchased overlooking the Rappahannock River and sought, unsuccessfully, for a wife to reside there with him.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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A Sterling man has died after he was pulled out of the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg.
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In a separate incident, a woman was killed after a boat she was in struck a channel marker in the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County late Monday, according to a Virginian-Pilot report.
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Kellum seafood is a case study: The oil spill has cut off most of its oyster supply, creating a little pocket of Gulf Coast desperation on the Rappahannock River.
For Chesapeake shuckers, Gulf oil spill means the world is no longer their oysters 2010
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Fourteen years ago I stood on the banks of the muddy Rappahannock River, speaking to a crowd of roughly 100 people gathered to protest a Wal-Mart superstore planned on the site of Ferry Farm, the boyhood home George Washington.
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Kellum seafood is a case study: The oil spill has cut off most of its oyster supply, creating a little pocket of Gulf Coast desperation on the Rappahannock River.
For Chesapeake shuckers, Gulf oil spill means the world is no longer their oysters 2010
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