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Flathead   Listen
noun
Flathead  n.  (Ethnol.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Flathead" Quotes from Famous Books



... And I ought to do it, too. That there Pete, he ain't worth the powder to blow him up—you couldn't learn him no politics if you set up with him night after night fer a year. Didn't I try? Try? I dern near bust my head open jest thinkin' up ways to make the flathead see. And he wouldn't make no effort, jest set there and parrot out 'Vote a Republican!' He's ongrateful, that's what he is. Well, him and them other Dagoes are goin' to stay at home fer two weeks, ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington

... lakes, the largest, Kootenay Lake, being upwards of seventy miles in length with an average width of five miles. A short distance below the confluence of the Kootenay, near the boundary line between Washington and British Columbia, another large stream comes in from the east, Clarke's Fork, or the Flathead River. Its upper sources are near those of the Missouri and South Saskatchewan, and in its course it flows through two large and beautiful lakes, the Flathead and the Pend d'Oreille. All the lakes we have noticed ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir



Words linked to "Flathead" :   scorpaenoid fish, Platycephalidae, Percophidae, percoid fish, scorpaenoid



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