Meer

[ meer; Dutch meyr ]

noun

1. Jan van der [yahn vahn de, r]. Vermeer, Jan.

Example Sentences

They didn’t get any off Blanco until the single by García that ended a long-shot bid to join Johnny Vander Meer for the Cincinnati Reds in 1938 with no-hitters in consecutive starts.

From Seattle Times

“You don’t expect to find elephants here in the city center of Brussels on the Grand Place, it’s unbelievable. So that’s a bit surrealistic of course,” said artist Dennis Van Der Meer, who was busy giving the wooden animals a floral skin.

From Seattle Times

Smith came across a Dutch researcher named Jentsje van der Meer who had developed a way of doing just this.

From Salon

Van der Meer had described something called a dynamically stable beach that didn't wash out to sea despite lashing rain and waves.

From Salon

In one famous incident two decades ago, city officials spent days tracking the movements of what was believed to be an alligator spotted in Central Park’s Harlem Meer, in the northeast corner of the park.

From New York Times