Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in southeast Wisconsin and flowing about 450 km (280 mi) generally south and southwest to the Mississippi River in northwest Illinois.
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Examples
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His band is the Winnebagoes living on Rock River, which is the residence of their prophet.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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His band is the Winnebagoes living on Rock River, which is the residence of their prophet.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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Neil Bloom Jutting out over the Rock River, the once-vacant commercial building was "just big enough for our needs," says Mr. Washatka.
Over the Border 2011
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She was swimming in the Rock River near Dixon, Illinois, one warm summer day in 1931, when she failed to notice another swimmer barreling down the water slide.
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She was swimming in the Rock River near Dixon, Illinois, one warm summer day in 1931, when she failed to notice another swimmer barreling down the water slide.
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Neil Bloom An area known as the fishbowl is surrounded by windows overlooking the Rock River and has become a favorite hang-out for employees.
Over the Border 2011
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He got a job as a lifeguard at Lowell Park, a beach set against a stretch of the Rock River.
TEAR DOWN THIS WALL ROMESH RATNESAR 2009
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He thus recorded pulling seventy-seven people out of the waters of the Rock River.
TEAR DOWN THIS WALL ROMESH RATNESAR 2009
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Here in this town of 12,000 straddling the Rock River east of Madison, authorities are trying to find the rider or riders who killed 62 ducks over two nights in late January as they nestled together in open water beneath the Main Street Bridge.
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Snowmobilers ran over and killed 60 ducks in two incidents while racing across open water beneath a bridge on the Rock River in downtown Fort Atkinson, police said Monday.
"Snowmobilers run over ducks in Fort Atkinson." Ann Althouse 2009
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