NOUN
- a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower
- an American breed of domestic fowl
How To Use Plymouth Rock In A Sentence
- He said that we of the South had descended from the royal and aristocratic blood of the Huguenots of France, and of the cavaliers of England, etc.; but that the Yankees were the descendents of the crop-eared Puritans and witch burners, who came over in the Mayflower, and settled at Plymouth Rock. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
- Then at last all the tired Pilgrims landed from the ship on a spot now called Plymouth Rock, and the first house was begun on Christmas Day. The Story Hour
- And you probably know that Thanksgiving has something to do with the first European settlers in America - the Pilgrims - who landed at what we now call Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620. Dr. Robert Epstein: Thanksgiving, Activism -- and Arianna Huffington!
- Legend has it that they first stepped onto land at a big rock, called Plymouth Rock (however, there is no real evidence of this). Danielle Wood: The Thanksgiving Cheat Sheet
- Wright Brothers and Plymouth Rock Pilgrims taking what they cannot return and we, wondering what all the cawing is about. Something to crow about « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
- Now, every once in a while, one of these New Englanders that owns the earth, especially that little stone portion called Plymouth Rock, which we never begrudged them, gets up at a great dinner and reads a fine speech and talks about civil and religious liberty which the Puritan came over to cause to flourish. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
- Thanksgiving is a celebration that commemorates the harvest reaped by the Plymouth colony in 1621, following their arrival at Plymouth Rock in 1620.
- They disembarked on the flat bowlder known as Plymouth Rock and set to work to make their home. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775
- The offenders are a pair of the blue Plymouth Rocks and a Rhode Island Red. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
- Thanksgiving is a celebration that commemorates the harvest reaped by the Plymouth colony in 1621, following their arrival at Plymouth Rock in 1620.