Otter (disambiguation)
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Otters are aquatic or marine carnivorous mammals, members of the large and diverse family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others.
Otter may also refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Otter, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony
- Otter, Montana, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Otter Brook (Ashuelot River), New Hampshire
- Otter National Forest, Montana
- Otter Falls, Yukon, Canada
- Otter Trail, South Africa
- Otter Creek (disambiguation)
- Otter Island (disambiguation)
- Otter Lake (disambiguation)
- Otter River (disambiguation)
- The Peaks of Otter, two mountains in Virginia
[edit] Vehicles
- De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft
- Otter Light Reconnaissance Car, an armoured car built in Canada during the Second World War
- Otter (Dinghy), a type of two man sailing dinghy
- Otter (steamship), a sidewheeler used by the Hudson's Bay Company in the Pacific Northwest
- HMS Otter, several ships of the Royal Navy
- HMQS Otter, a patrol and examination vessel of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and later the Royal Australian Navy
- USS Otter (DE-210), a destroyer escort of the United States Navy
- Otter (ship), an American sailing ship on which Thomas Muir escaped from an Australian convict settlement in 1796
- Otter M49 Carrier, cargo/troop, amphibious, full-tracked [1]
[edit] People
- Anthony Otter (1896-1986), sixth Bishop of Grantham, England
- Butch Otter (born 1942), U.S. politician and current Governor of Idaho
- Francis Otter (1831–1895), English Liberal Member of Parliament
- William Otter (1768-1840), first Principal of King's College London and Bishop of Chichester, England
- William Dillon Otter (1843-1929), soldier who was the first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Army
[edit] Other uses
- Otter or Ótr, son of Hreidmar, a dwarf in Norse mythology
- Otter theorem prover, the automated reasoning system
- otter, a board used in trawlers and minecrawlers that holds a line at a certain angle, related to a paravane
- Maris Otter, a brand name for pale malted barley, used in brewing
- Erie Otters, a junior hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League, based in Erie, Pennsylvania
- Otter Press, an Australian publisher
[edit] See also
- Orthodontic Technicians Association (abbreviated as OTA and pronounced "Otter")
[edit] References
- ^ Army's Amphibious Cargo Carrier Made of Aluminum to Reduce Weight." Popular Mechanics, August 1953, p. 118.
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