Nottaway

American  

[not-uh-wey] / ˈnɒt əˌweɪ /

noun

1. a river in SW Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to James Bay. 140 miles (225 km) long.

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Example Sentences

And then, alone in the coach, pulled by a team of four coal-black stallions, Lord Primus left the village of Nottaway, in significantly worse temper than he had arrived there.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

It was enough to pay a villager of Nottaway to travel with her—to ensure no wolves made off with the horse or his brother's remains—and to pay off the coachman when finally he awoke.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

I recollect distinctly the little locomotives, Nottaway and Logan.

From A Pioneer Railway of the West by Lafferty, Maude Ward

This "new locomotive" may have been the "Nottaway" or "The Logan" or the "Daniel Boone."

From A Pioneer Railway of the West by Lafferty, Maude Ward

I'd been in an Indian camp a week before, on the Nottaway River, where they had had smallpox, but I've been vaccinated four or five times, and never dreamed of danger.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie