Definition of Jordans

1. jordan [n] - See also: jordan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jordans

jook-sing
jook-sings
jook house
jook joint
jook joints
jooked
jookeries
jookery
jooking
jooks
jor
joram
jorams
jordanite
jordanites
jordans (current term)
jordeloo
jordeloos
jorden
joropo
joropos
jors
jorum
jorums
josamycin
josei
joseki
josekis
joseph
joseph's flower

Literary usage of Jordans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"... of a recent voyage along the western shores of Victoria Xyan/a and exploration of jordans Nullah, which they have received from their agent, Mr. Mackay. ..."

2. Travels in Central Africa, and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries by John Petherick, Katherine Harriet Edlman Petherick (1869)
"I hope you will yet come down to ' jordans' some time before you depart again. " Tours very truly, "(Signed) JH SPEKE." Shortly after this I accepted his ..."

3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1900)
"wife of William Penn, buried at jordans. 1696 2 mo. 10th. ... William Penn died and buried at jordans 6 mo. 5th. 1718 1726 6 mo. 20th. ..."

4. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"... near Old jordans, some twenty miles from London, where it is supposed the keel and ribs of the Mayflower were worked into the building of a barn, ..."

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