Deschutes

[ dey-shoot ]

noun

1. a river flowing N from the Cascade Range in central Oregon to the Columbia River. 250 miles (400 km) long.

Example Sentences

Mr. Graham took up a homestead near Corvallis, not far from the mouth of the Deschutes river, where he developed a fruit farm.

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This is an alternate name for Deschutes River, for which see ante, p. 119, note 102.

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I was to go down the Canyon of the Deschutes and find out all about it.

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Near the mouth of the Deschutes are the Falls of the Columbia, where the river passes a rough bar of lava.

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So when we heard of the Indians up the Deschutes we were anxious for a fight and started for them.

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