Chesapeake

[ches-uh-peek]

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noun

(italics) a U.S. frigate boarded in 1807 by the British, who removed part of its crew and impressed some members into British service: captured by the British in naval battle near Boston in 1813.

a city in SE Virginia. 114,486.

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Chesapeake

from an Algonquian language, perhaps lit. "great shellfish bay." Early spellings include Chesepiooc and Chesupioc.

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"Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen."

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