Definition of Coosa river

1. Noun. River that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River.

Exact synonyms: Coosa
Group relationships: Al, Alabama, Camellia State, Heart Of Dixie, Empire State Of The South, Ga, Georgia, Peach State
Generic synonyms: River

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coosa River

Cooperia
Cooperia bisonis
Cooperia curticei
Cooperia fieldingi
Cooperia oncophora
Cooperia pectinata
Cooperia punctata
Cooperia spatulata
Cooperstown
Cooranbong
Coordinated Universal Time
Coorg
Coorgs
Coosa
Coosa River
CopA ATPase
CopB ATPase
Copacabana
Cope's clamp
Copehan
Copeland
Copenhagen
Copenhagen blue
Copenhagen blues
Copenhagener
Copenhageners
Copepoda
Copernican
Copernican Revolution

Literary usage of Coosa river

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

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Hood is now crossing coosa river, twelve miles below Rome, bound west. If he passes over the Mobile and Ohio road, had I not better execute the plan of my ..."

2. Report of Progress by Robert Brough Smyth (1876)
"Cahawba river; coosa river ; Buck creek; Shoal creek.* A. contorta, Lea. ... coosa river. (Also found in Georgia.) A. ligata, Anth. Tennessee river. ..."

3. Conservation of Water by Storage: Addresses Delivered in the Chester S by George Fillmore Swain (1915)
"An act to authorize the building of a dam across the coosa river, in Alabama, at a place suitable to the interest of navigation about seven and one-half ..."

4. The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian by Edward King (1875)
"The opening of the coosa river would give to the markets of Montgomery ... The improvement of the coosa river and of Mobile harbor would accomplish this. ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on Foundations, Explaining Fully the Principles by William Macfarland Patton (1893)
"... 1893, is found a very instructive description of the removing and subsequent rebuilding of a pivot pier of a bridge over the coosa river at Gadsden, ..."

6. Report on the Valley Regions of Alabama: (Paleozoic Strata) by Henry McCalley, Geological Survey of Alabama (1897)
"The body of flatwoods to the north-west of the coosa river are bounded on the ... 6, of the south bank of the coosa river some 4 miles above Gadsden. ..."

7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1895)
"It is situated on the east side of the coosa river, between the Talladega ... ninety-five to one hundred and ten feet above low water in the coosa river. ..."

8. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"Trotted four miles and passed a good many wounded, but we were not needed. We bivouac to-night on the southeast bank of coosa river. ..."

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