Synonyms:
Delaware, Delaware_River
Meaning: a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay
Usage examples
DELAWARE:
ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, 1859.
FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE.
They were the so called property of John Ennis, of Georgetown, Delaware.
She fled from Isaac Tonnell of Georgetown, Delaware, in Christmas week, 1853.
The mother of these boys was freed at the age of twenty-eight, and lived in Wilmington, Delaware.
Charles resolved that when his brothers crossed the line dividing Delaware and Pennsylvania, he would not be far behind.
The great ship Pennsylvania was burned, and the frigates Merrimac and Columbus, and the Delaware, Raritan, Plymouth, and Germantown were sunk.
The latter can easily back up General Apathy to an extent that spells "no game laws." In one act, and at one bold stroke, Delaware can step out of her position at the rear of the procession of states, and take a place in the front rank.
It is surprising to know that Venezuela is as large as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, the two Virginias, North and South Carolina and Georgia combined.