The Only Use of
maverick
in
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- Although Mama had been a teacher at Great Faith for fourteen years, ever since she had graduated from the Crandon Teacher Training School at nineteen, she was still considered by many of the other teachers as a disrupting maverick.†
p. 30.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(maverick) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, maverick refers to an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf) that can be claimed by the first person who puts a brand on it. It was also the name of a popular television western that ran 1957-1962.