Crockett

[krok-it]

noun

DavidDavy, 1786–1836, U.S. frontiersman, politician, and folklore hero.

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Examples from the Web for crockett

Contemporary Examples of crockett

Crockett went to get him but then decided to let him remain "dead."
Snowden Is a Spy
Michael Tomasky
June 24, 2013
Crockett says Dow Jones appears to be thinking “about creeping down the road towards Bloomberg.”
At Dow Jones, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Bloomberg
Alex Klein
July 1, 2012
And there are the parts of Florida that Crockett and Tubbs never quite got to, up in the northern sticks.
Michael Tomasky: Newt’s Racist Surge May Sink Romney in South Carolina
Michael Tomasky
January 19, 2012

Historical Examples of crockett

I will take a solitary story from Mr. Crockett's 'Stickit Minister.'
My Contemporaries In Fiction
David Christie Murray
Anybody but Mr. Crockett can see where the point of the story lies.
My Contemporaries In Fiction
David Christie Murray
I see Crockett and Gibbs, two of the committee, with the fellows.
Frank Merriwell's Races
Burt L. Standish
Take Crockett into some other bedroom, not his own, and let your son look after him.
The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 40, April, 1894
Various
Crockett admits that at this time he did not know the letters of the alphabet.
The Way to the West
Emerson Hough

British Dictionary definitions for crockett

Crockett

noun

David, known as Davy Crockett. 1786–1836, US frontiersman, politician, and soldier

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