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Seekonk River

Seekonk River proper noun: a river in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, flowing from the Blackstone River to the Providence River.

Proper noun

Seekonk River

  1. A river in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, flowing from the Blackstone River to the Providence River.
    • The Narragansitts were a great people heretofore; and the territory of their Sachem extended about thirty or forty miles from Sekunk river and Narragansitt bay, including Rhode Island and other islands in that bay, being their east and north bounds or border, and so running westerly and southerly...1674, Daniel Gookin, “Historical Collections of the Indians in New England”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 1, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1792, →OCLC, page 147

Questions about Seekonk River

What does Seekonk River mean?
Seekonk River means a river in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, flowing from the Blackstone River to the Providence River.
What part of speech is Seekonk River?
Seekonk River is a proper noun.

Words near Seekonk River in the dictionary

  1. seekingly
  2. seekings
  3. seekini
  4. seekinis
  5. Seekonk
  6. Seekonk River
  7. seeks
  8. seeks a knot in a bulrush
  9. seeks for
  10. seeks one's fortune
  11. seeks one's virtuous couch

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