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

  • A bay of western Lake Erie in an island off Ohio. The US Navy under Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a British fleet here on September 10, 1813, in the War of 1812.

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  • Current Mood: busy justbeast and I sailed to the most populated and commercial of the Erie islands this weekend--South Bass, and Put-in-Bay, which is the lamest name for a bay ever, made even lamer by sounding vaguely dirty but not dirty enough to be really funny.

    My Army of Birds and Gulls yuki_onna 2007

  • The Ohio town of Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island has the biggest party of all.

    'Twas 147 Shopping Days Before Christmas ... 2009

  • Remember the spur-of-the-moment road trip to New Haven and hanging out with Dink in Put-in-Bay?

    idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2006

  • If my grandfather, who died last November at 97, were still living, my family probably would have traveled to Put-in-Bay earlier this month to celebrate his 98th birthday.

    Island fever Sinfonian 2004

  • If my grandfather, who died last November at 97, were still living, my family probably would have traveled to Put-in-Bay earlier this month to celebrate his 98th birthday.

    Archive 2004-08-15 Sinfonian 2004

  • British commander ran up his flag, weighed anchor, and set sail, hoping to encounter early next morning the American fleet, which lay thirty or more miles distant at Put-in-Bay.

    Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada Ethel T. Raymond

  • Crippled and dismantled, the brave ships, whose sails had swelled so proudly in the morning breeze, now made their way towards Put-in-Bay.

    Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada Ethel T. Raymond

  • Each of the finders purchased a hundred bushels of potatoes, took them to the army at Put-in-Bay, quadrupling the money invested, and giving Johnson his first financial start in life.

    Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin

  • All the successes in the west, however, were now rendered worthless by the unfortunate defeat at Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie of the English flotilla under Captain Barclay, by Commodore Perry, who had command of

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • On the morning of the 10th instant, at sunrise, they were discovered from Put-in-Bay, where

    The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

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