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chesapeake
/ˈtʃɛsəˌpik/
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What does chesapeake mean?
noun
- Any member of the Chesapeake tribe.
proper noun
- The Chesapeake Bay.
- An extinct town in Warren County, Indiana.
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proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri.
- A village in Lawrence County, Ohio.
- An independent city in south-east Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia.
- A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
- (historical) (with the) A Native American tribe that once inhabited the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtʃɛsəˌpik/
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Time’s finger had turned back his pages, and that was the Shannon sailing triumphant up the bay with the Chesapeake as her prize.
When Key and Skinner reached the British fleet it was already on its way up the Chesapeake Bay to the attack on Baltimore.
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In rough weather, the waters of the Chesapeake are much agitated, and there is danger, in a canoe, of being swamped by the waves.
She is quite contented in a full suit of mottled brown and olive gray, presenting a texture on the back somewhat similar to the canvas-back species of Chesapeake Bay.
Virginia then, becoming the frontier, it would be easy, with the cooperation of an army ascending the Chesapeake, to traverse the entire South with their legions, detaching it wholly from the federal compact.