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Crockett

[ krok-it ]

noun

  1. David Davy, 1786–1836, U.S. frontiersman, politician, and folklore hero.


Crockett

/ ˈkrɒkɪt /

noun

  1. CrockettDavid17861836MUSTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: frontiersmanPOLITICS: politicianMILITARY: soldier David, known as Davy Crockett. 1786–1836, US frontiersman, politician, and soldier


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This was the moment where Crockett found herself in tears on the Texas House floor.

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Keep in mind Crockett lives in an expensive part of an expensive state, which may drive up some costs.

One group that Crockett has been burrowing in with lately is traffic engineers — the people responsible for designing, sourcing, building, and maintaining signalized traffic intersections.

Crockett has also looked into what it costs drivers to sit at traffic lights, waiting for them to turn green.

As noted in a long feature in Slate about their work, Crockett and Hudson uncovered hundreds of fake accounts at the time and documented how the campaign worked.

Crockett went to get him but then decided to let him remain "dead."

Crockett says Dow Jones appears to be thinking “about creeping down the road towards Bloomberg.”

And there are the parts of Florida that Crockett and Tubbs never quite got to, up in the northern sticks.

Powder only he would have for their long, heavy small-bore rifles with flintlocks, such as Davy Crockett used.

He readily acquiesced in all the amendments which were proposed by members of the Boone and Crockett Club.

"Flower o' the Corn" is probably one of Mr. Crockett's most delightful women characters.

We may tentatively draw their boundary between Rodeo and Crockett.

The Karquines (on the south side at least) probably began near Crockett, adjoining the Huchiun on the west.

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