Neuse

[noos, nyoos]

noun

a river in E central North Carolina, flowing SE to Pamlico Sound. 275 miles (442 km) long.

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Examples from the Web for neuse

I live one mile from a little village on the east bank of the Neuse.
Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880
Various
This stream was a tributary of the Neuse River and was then unfordable.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2
Jacob Dolson Cox
They say the Federals are retreating on Newbern; yet we know they made 500 of our men prisoners after they crossed the Neuse.
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
John Beauchamp Jones
Just below Newbern the Neuse river receives the Trent river as a tributary.
Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy
John M. Batten
We crossed the Neuse, a rather wide river, in a narrow and clumsy ferry-boat.
Travels Through North America, v. 1-2
Berhard Saxe-Weimar Eisenach