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Dawson

[daw-suhn]

noun

  1. Sir John William, 1820–99, Canadian geologist and educator.

  2. William Levi, 1899–1990, U.S. composer and conductor.

  3. a town in NW Canada, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers: former capital of the Yukon Territory.



Dawson

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Eleven men bowled spin for England between Liam Dawson's 20th and 21st international caps.

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While Buttler has been a fixture in England's white-ball teams for a generation, this was only Dawson's 21st international despite his debut coming nine years ago.

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The result has been Hartley's recall to England's ODI squad and Dawson's return for the T20 series against West Indies that follows.

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“I like to say I have no lesser ambition than to be the new Detroit for vehicle manufacturing,” Riverside Mayor Lock Dawson said.

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But the show gets some mileage out of it, including a guest spot by James Van Der Beek, Dawson himself, as a dissolute older member.

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