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Definition of Cooters
1. cooter [n] - See also: cooter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooters
Literary usage of Cooters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Major Jones's liko so many cooters in a mud-hole, with ther red eyes 1851 He's
... 1853 What 'u'd these darned cooters think, if they could see us naow ? ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"... and in the ditches, full of black water, which ran parallel with the line,
cooters and terrapins and various reptiles were swimming about. ..."
3. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1870)
"Adams, 6 Paige, 443; cooters v. Hunter, 4 Rand. 58.) 16. That the design and
object of the plaintiff in enjoining the defendants, at this particular time, ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1913)
"Pontederia cordata L.—Black potato, Venice, La.; cow, cooter or dog-tongue wampee,
Santee Club, SC Called cooter wampee because cooters or fresh-water ..."
5. The Chickasaw Nation: A Short Sketch of a Noble People by James Henry Malone (1922)
"... sliders, cooters, etc., and these are practically all shipped west to Oregon
and California, or to New York, Chicago, and other Eastern markets, ..."
6. Early Methodism in the Carolinas by Abel McKee Chreitzberg (1897)
"About this time he preached the funeral sermon of a woman whoso husband, a Mr.
Meeks, kept a tippling shop at cooters- boro (?). ..."
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