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Penobscot

[ US /pəˈnɑbskɑt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a river in central Maine flowing into Penobscot Bay
  2. a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine

How To Use Penobscot In A Sentence

  • On arrival in Penobscot Bay they set up their equipment, calibrated their clocks with other astronomical observations, and confidently awaited the eclipse.
  • The peapod – so named because its double-ended and round-sided shape resembles a pea pod – is thought to have originated in the 1870s in Penobscot Bay and was the boat of choice on Matinicus for decades. Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting'
  • On the coast of Maine, Champdoré also met a new generation of Indian leaders, in particular the Penobscot sagamore Asticou, “a man of weight and fine presence” who summered on Mount Desert Island. Champlain's Dream
  • (Penobscot.) _N'karnayoo_, of old times: _Woodenit atok hagen_ Algonquin Legends of New England
  • The tectonic events began with the Penobscottian orogeny in the Cambrian Period that affected northwestern to north-central Maine.
  • The peapod – so named because its double-ended and round-sided shape resembles a pea pod – is thought to have originated in the 1870s in Penobscot Bay and was the boat of choice on Matinicus for decades. Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting'
  • The Penobscot River drains the largest watershed in Maine and is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's flagship river for the restoration of Atlantic salmon in the country.
  • But the sieur de Mons wanted to study it, and perhaps the restless gentleman-adventurers wished to see the sights.43 They stayed several days at Mount Desert, then sailed to Penobscot Bay and crossed its broad mouth. Champlain's Dream
  • Frenchman who was brought into Penobscot, dressed in homespun, and sent to meeting. CHAPTER XVIII
  • Father, François Ciquard, to the Penobscot at Oldtown about 1785 For nearly ten years he ministered to them and the Passamaquoddy, when he was transferred to the Maliseet on the Saint John. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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