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Yazoo
[ yaz-oo, ya-zoo ]
noun
- a city in W central Mississippi.
- a river flowing SW from N Mississippi into the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. 188 miles (303 km) long.
Example Sentences
But for African Americans, who significantly outnumbered whites in Yazoo County, it was, obviously, very bad indeed.
Now he sent his boats up through the Yazoo swamps, then they had a fight on the Arkansas River; and in this way he was kept busy.
The situation was becoming more exciting on the deck of the Yazoo, judging by the sounds that came from it.
The pursuer had ceased to discharge her guns, and those of the Yazoo were useless under present circumstances.
A second was to force the gunboats and transports up the tortuous and swampy Yazoo to find a landing far north of Haines's Bluff.
It was such a one as, under present persuasion, I could not have voted for, even to remove a Yazoo purchaser.
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