Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in central Germany and flowing about 290 km (180 mi) generally northward to join the Fulda River and form the Weser.
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Examples
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When I read about Hann Münden - a well-situated village at the confluence of the Werra and Fulda rivers with over 700 half timber houses - it had sounded a little touristy, but it didn't feel that way to me.
Archive 2009-08-01 C N Heidelberg 2009
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When I read about Hann Münden - a well-situated village at the confluence of the Werra and Fulda rivers with over 700 half timber houses - it had sounded a little touristy, but it didn't feel that way to me.
Hannoversch Münden C N Heidelberg 2009
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Back in the skies above the Werra River Valley, where Papenberg had safely landed, American pilots were putting in panicky calls for escorts.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Back in the skies above the Werra River Valley, where Papenberg had safely landed, American pilots were putting in panicky calls for escorts.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Werra where in ourthe did you ever pick a Lambay chop as big as a battering ram?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Three years after his visit to Berlin in February 1883, Mather received 80,000 brown trout eggs from aboard the German steamship Werra, which he delivered to a New York State hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Three years after his visit to Berlin in February 1883, Mather received 80,000 brown trout eggs from aboard the German steamship Werra, which he delivered to a New York State hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Three years after his visit to Berlin in February 1883, Mather received 80,000 brown trout eggs from aboard the German steamship Werra, which he delivered to a New York State hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Three years after his visit to Berlin in February 1883, Mather received 80,000 brown trout eggs from aboard the German steamship Werra, which he delivered to a New York State hatchery at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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In recent decades two German rivers, the Elbe and the Werra, have been a far greater obstacle than the huge expanse of the North Atlantic.
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