Nottoway

[ not-uh-wey ]

noun

1. a river in S Virginia, flowing SE to the Blackwater River at the North Carolina border. 170 miles (274 km) long.

Example Sentences

The Chowanoc and Nottoway and other cognate tribes adjoining the Tuscarora may have been offshoots from that tribe.

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Nottoway is an Indian word meaning "a snake, that is, an enemy."

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The only one of the counties formed in 1789 that is now in Virginia is Nottoway.

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The Nottoway was higher than the Rappahannock is to-night, and you did not expect to meet me again—so soon!

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I was going to say 'I found these people on the Nottoway—one half-drowned, and the other in a newly dug grave!'

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