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

  • A name for the North Canadian River as it flows about 450 km (280 mi) along the Oklahoma Panhandle.

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Examples

  • So, taking my boy Baptiste and one man with me, we packed up and started for Beaver River, which is a branch of the Missouri, and in the heart of the Black Foot country.

    The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth 1856

  • Along the way it flows through southwestern Oklahoma City into dam-created Eufaula Lake, near the city of Eufaula where it is joined by the North Canadian River (also known as the Beaver River).

    Rivers of Texas 2008

  • Ed Rendell speaks with reporters and local officials after a press conference beneath the Beaver-Rochester Bridge, where he announced the start of a $10 million rehabilitation of the span, which carries Route 51 over the Beaver River.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Stimulus-Funded Bridge Project gets Under Way in Beaver County 2009

  • Ed Rendell speaks with reporters and local officials after a press conference beneath the Beaver-Rochester Bridge, where he announced the start of a $10 million rehabilitation of the span, which carries Route 51 over the Beaver River.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Stimulus-Funded Bridge Project gets Under Way in Beaver County 2009

  • The cars caught fire over the Beaver River, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • The derailed cars were burning over the Beaver River near Pittsburgh.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • The derailed cars were burning over the Beaver River near Pittsburgh.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • The cars were burning over the Beaver River, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • Two dozen train cars, some on fire, hanging over the Beaver River in New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • Long ago, when Blue Duck was a boy of seven or eight, before his father began to insult him, Buffalo Hump had taken him on a long ride to Black Mesa, west of the Beaver River, in country that was so dry Blue Duck thought they might die of thirst.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

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