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Cumberland

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Noun

1. butcher cumberland, cumberland, duke of cumberland, william augustus

English general; son of George II; fought unsuccessfully in the battle of Fontenoy (1721-1765)

2. cumberland, cumberland river

a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky

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Cumberland

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noun
(until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
noun
1. 
Richard. 1631–1718, English theologian and moral philosopher; bishop of Peterborough (1691–1718)
2. 
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, known as Butcher Cumberland. 1721–65, English soldier, younger son of George II, noted for his defeat of Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden (1746) and his subsequent ruthless destruction of Jacobite rebels

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Cumberland

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1. 
former county of NW England, now part of Cumbria county
2. 
river in S Ky. & N Tenn., flowing west into the Ohio at the S Ill. border: 687 mi (1,106 km)

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