catawba

plural catawbas

1. The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.
2. A light sparkling wine made from this kind of grape.
3. Any of various species of America catalpa trees Catalpa especially (Catalpa bignonioides (southern catalpa) or Catalpa speciosa (northern catalpa).
4. The catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense).

plural Catawbas

1. A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.

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   There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery [to another tribe] to trade for bows and arrows. This chief [of the other tribe] had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the brave went, and then she went to get it. She kept shooting it in the air until she caught up with him.

   1970, Charles M. Hudson, The Catawba Nation

2. plural "Catawbas"A red American dessert grape variety.

   The basic material for sherry is a mixture or a blend of dry wines from Niagaras, Delawares, and Catawbas or other white juices, which are sweetened and fortified and then blended with California sherry.

   1950, Peter John Valaer, Wines of the world

1. The language of the Eastern Siouan family spoken in eastern United States.
2. A river in North Carolina and South Carolina, United States.

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   Cornwallis finally moved after Morgan's men. Left behind to cover the fords and delay the British, North Carolina general William Lee Davidson and a few men were killed as the British poured across Cowan's Ford. Once the British crossed the Catawba, the Americans had to get past another river, the Yadkin beyond Salisbury.

   1998, Lawrence E. Babits, A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens