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Definition of Tombigbee
1. Noun. A river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River.
Group relationships: Al, Alabama, Camellia State, Heart Of Dixie, Magnolia State, Mississippi, Ms
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tombigbee
Literary usage of Tombigbee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"The Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, together with the Mobile River,
... The Warrior flows into the Tombigbee about one mile above Demopolis, ..."
2. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1894)
"We have thus a fairly correct column of these beds along the Chattahoochee as
well as of their characteristics east of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1847)
"Tombigbee Railroad Company c. Kneeland. THE Tombigbee RAILROAD COMPANY v. ...
The declaration stated, that the Tombigbee Railroad Company was a corporation ..."
4. Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces by Charles Lanman (1856)
"THE Tombigbee AND BLACK WARRIOR RIVERS. INTENDING to revisit Mobile, I only
remained there long enough to secure a passage up the Tombigbee and Black ..."
5. Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces by Charles Lanman (1856)
"THE Tombigbee AND BLACK WARRIOR RIVERS. INTENDING to revisit Mobile, ... My first
steamboat trip up the Tombigbee took me to the quiet and pleasant town of ..."
6. Report on the Geology of the Coastal Plain of Alabama by Geological Survey of Alabama, Eugene Allen Smith, Daniel W. Langdon, jr, Truman Heminway Aldrich, K. M. Cunningham (1894)
"We have thus a fairly correct column of these beds along the Chattahoochee as
well as of their characteristics east of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. ..."
7. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"IMPROVEMENT OF THE BLACK WARRIOR, WARRIOR AND Tombigbee RIVERS, IN ALABAMA.
Discussion.* By Messrs. ..."
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