Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Spanish-American name of the bighorn or Rocky Mountain sheep, Ovis montana.
- noun [capitalized] In the Philippine Islands, a name given to members of various poor wandering tribes, mostly descendants of civilized natives who have fled to the mountain forests.
- noun A West-Indian name for a wild (feral) dog.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River
- noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
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Examples
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Big took me to the vast ranches of Texas, and in Cimarron I'm experiencing the Oklahoma Land Rush and the hardships of the first settlements.
Archive 2009-06-01 regina doman 2009
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Big took me to the vast ranches of Texas, and in Cimarron I'm experiencing the Oklahoma Land Rush and the hardships of the first settlements.
Rediscovering Ferber regina doman 2009
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Cimarron is a Mexican hybrid word, descended from the Apache who spent many nights in these same buffalo wallows.
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Little Blackie, aka Cimarron of the Coen Brothers' film, charges through the winter night bearing his two riders, one oversized, the other a delirious girl, his savior from the glue factory.
Ruth Starkman: True Grit: Little Blackie Has it Ruth Starkman 2010
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Father had first supposed that the prairies beside the Cimarron might be a good place to start a Virginia-style plantation, but he wisely discarded that notion while the barn was just half built.
Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006
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Tri-State says the plant, called the Cimarron I Solar Project, is the largest photovoltaic project by an electric cooperative.
unknown title 2009
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One, dubbed the Cimarron, uses gravity to push the water from the tank into the bowl.
unknown title 2009
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One, dubbed the Cimarron, uses gravity to push the water from the tank into the bowl.
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(These workshop productions, including works by Satie and Kagel, as well as Henze's "Cimarron," are some of the most interesting fare of Jürgen Flimm's inaugural season, and will form the basis of a new music theater festival in 2011.)
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Using the wall phone inside the little building, Eric called the Cimarron County Sheriff’s Department and the dispatcher gave him the combination to a lock that held the key to the airport’s courtesy car.
The Mesa Conspiracy David Kent 2005
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