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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river of southern West Virginia flowing about 150 km (95 mi) from the confluence of the New and Gauley Rivers northwest to the Ohio River.

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  • noun a tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia

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Examples

  • But the New River had yet to crest Tuesday afternoon, so emergency officials were monitoring the Kanawha River, which is formed by the New and the Gauley.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • In 1787, along the Kanawha River at the mouth of the Elk River, a blockhouse was built.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • There's a "Magic Island" park in the Kanawha River in the heart of Charleston.

    LOSTCasts 55: The Brig 2007

  • The little town lay on the south bank of a loop of the Kanawha River.

    The Disunited States of America 2006

  • It stretched for several miles along the northern bank of the Kanawha River, but it never got very far from the stream.

    The Disunited States of America 2006

  • At eighteen, he broke into the trade as a lowly “mud clerk” for a packet on the Cincinnati–Kanawha River line.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • At eighteen, he broke into the trade as a lowly “mud clerk” for a packet on the Cincinnati–Kanawha River line.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The next school of consequence established on Kanawha River was the

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

  • Washington made his last visit to Pittsburgh in October, 1770, when, on his way to the Kanawha River, he stopped here for several days, and lodged with Samuel Semple, the first innkeeper, whose hostelry stood, and still stands, at the corner of Water and Ferry Streets.

    A Short History of Pittsburgh Samuel Harden Church

  • Kanawha River of a little over one hundred and fifty miles.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

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