Crossword-Solution: ORISKANY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oriskany | a. | Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ORISKANY”
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| Battle of the Revolution, Aug. 6, 1777. | 1 answer |
| Site of 1777 battle in upstate New York. | 1 answer |
| Site of battle, 1777. | 1 answer |
| New U. S. aircraft carrier. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORISKANY (5)
General Herkimer, August, 1777, on his march from what is Herkimer county to the battle of Oriskany, forded the Mohawk near the site of the old fort, and though wounded, stopped there on the return journey.
About fifteen miles from Utica in a wondrously picturesque section of the Mohawk valley, we came into the town of Herkimer, named after the hero of the battle of Oriskany.
The thin sandstones of the Oriskany mark an epoch when waves worked over the deposits of former coastal plains.
The Oneida said it was because the Iroquois had no quarrel with Penn's people, who themselves disliked the intruding Yankee and New Yorker; but they were infuriated against us because we had driven the Iroquois from their New York lands and had punished them so dreadfully at Oriskany.
And he further said that Cherry Valley would not have been made such a shambles except that Colonel Clyde and Colonel Campbell lived there, who had done them so much injury at Oriskany.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1950–1965).