Otter (disambiguation)

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An Otter is an aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal.

Otter may also refer to:

Places

  • Otter, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony
  • Otter, Ontario, Canada, a dispersed rural community
  • Otter, Montana, United States, an unincorporated community
  • Otter, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
  • River Otter, Devon, England

Vessels and vehicles

  • Otter (dinghy), a type of two-man sailing dinghy
  • Otter (steamship), a sidewheeler used by the Hudson's Bay Company in the Pacific Northwest from the 1830s
  • Otter (sternwheeler), 1874–1897, mainly in Puget Sound
  • Otter (1795 ship), American sailing ship on which Thomas Muir of Huntershill escaped from an Australian convict settlement in 1796
  • HMS Otter, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Otter (DE-210), a destroyer escort of the United States Navy
  • HMQS Otter, a patrol and examination vessel of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and later the Royal Australian Navy
  • Otter Light Reconnaissance Car, an armoured car built in Canada during the Second World War
  • De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft
  • M76 Otter, an amphibious cargo carrier used by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War

Sports teams

  • Cal State Monterey Bay Otters, the athletics teams of California State University, Monterey Bay
  • Evansville Otters, a Frontier League baseball team
  • Erie Otters, a junior hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League, based in Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Huntsville Otters, a junior "C" hockey team, from Huntsville, Ontario
  • Missouri River Otters, a minor pro team in the United Hockey League from 1999 to 2006

People

  • Otter (surname)
  • Otter or Ótr, son of Hreidmar, a dwarf in Norse mythology
  • Otter, a main character in the 1978 film Animal House, played by Tim Matheson
  • Otter (gay culture), LGBT slang similar to bear, but referring to a thinner build

Other

  • Otter.ai, a web application which performs voice to text transcription
  • Otter Browser, open-source web browser clone of Opera (web browser)
  • Otter (film) [de], 2001 German animated film by Walt Disney Pictures
  • Otter (software), infrastructure automation tool
  • Otter (theorem prover), a public domain software program
  • Otter Media, a mass media company owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Otter, or ottu (instrument), a drone-oboe played in Southern India
  • De Otter, Amsterdam, a windmill
  • Orthodontic Technicians Association (abbreviated as OTA and pronounced "otter")
  • Otter (fishing device), a floating fishing device used from boat or from land equipped with a steering mechanism

See also

  • Maris Otter, brand name for pale malted barley
  • Ottery (disambiguation)
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