HUMBER

Date "HUMBER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

"HUMBER" is a common misspelling or typo for: cumber, hombre, humbler, hummer, lumber, number, umber.

Domain	Definition
Literature	Humber Chief of the Huns, defeated by Locrin, King of England, and drowned in the river Abus, ever since called the Humber. (Geoffrey of Monmouth: Chronicles.) "Their chieftain Humber named was aright Unto the mighty streame him to betake, Where he an end of battall and of life did make." Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 10. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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The Humber is a large tidal estuary in northern England. It starts at Trent Falls at the confluence of the River Ouse and the River Trent; it then passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the junction with the River Ancholme on the south shore; past North Ferriby and South Ferriby, under the Humber Bridge and past Barton-upon-Humber and then into the North Sea at Spurn.

In the Anglo-Saxon period, it was a major boundary, separating Northumbria from the southern kingdoms. Indeed the name Northumbria simply indicates the area North of the Humber. It currently forms the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire between Faxfleet and Spurn Head.

Two fortifications were built in the mouth of the river in 1914, the Humber Forts.

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the Romans forded it

Humber was also the name of a make of British car, which disappeared after mergers in the 1960s. See Humber (car).

Crosswords: HUMBER

Specialty definitions using "HUMBER": Abus ♦ Mercia ♦ Perceforest. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Geology of the Humber Group: Central Graben & Moray Firth, U. K. (reference) Icarus over the Humber : the last flight of airship R.38/ZR-2 (reference) (more book examples)
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	The airship's wreckage in the Humber River at Hull, Yorkshire, England, after it had broken up in the air, exploded and crashed. The tail is at the left. Credit: NAVY.		Rescue party cutting into the fabric hull covering, near the tail, in an effort to save airmen trapped in the wreckage, "scarcely one-half hour" after the airship broke up, exploded and crashed into the Humber River at Hull, England. Credit: NAVY.
	Closeup view of some of the airship's wreckage, including a leg and foot of one of the 44 victims of the tragedy, soon after it broke up in the air, exploded and crashed into the Humber River off Victoria Pier, Hull, England. Credit: NAVY.		Memorial at Hull, Yorkshire, England, erected in honor of those lost when the airship broke up in the air, exploded and crashed into the Humber River off Hull. Of the 49 men on board, including 17 Americans, 44 lost their lives. Credit: NAVY.
	Descriptive plaque, part of a memorial erected at Hull, Yorkshire, England, in honor of those lost when the airship broke up in the air, exploded and crashed into the Humber River off Hull. Of the 49 men on board, including 17 Americans, 44 lost their lives. Credit: NAVY.		Plaque listing British personnel killed when the airship broke up in the air, exploded and crashed into the Humber River off Hull, Yorkshire, England. The plaque is part of a memorial erected at Hull in honor of the dead. Of the 49 men on board, including 17 Americans, 44 lost their lives. This plaque contains the names of 28 officers and men of the Royal Air Force, staff members of the National Physical Laboratory and of the Royal Airship Works. Credit: NAVY.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Water transport on the principal river systems, Thames, Severn, Trent, Stour, Humber and Avon, though not their navigable estuaries, and more than 2000 miles of canals is managed by a government-controlled company, British Waterways. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"HUMBER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.09% of the time. "HUMBER" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	70.09%	75	38,535
Noun (proper)	29.91%	32	61,292
Total	100.00%	107	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "HUMBER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Humber	Last name	400	20,818
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "HUMBER": humber Bridge. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "HUMBER": Barton-on-humber, Barton-upon-humber, Brough-on-humber.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "HUMBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Esperanto		Humbro. (various references)

Pig Latin		umberhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-h-m-r-u"
	-1 letter: brume, rheum, rhumb, umber.
	-2 letters: berm, buhr, herb, herm, mure, rube.
	-3 letters: bum, bur, emu, hem, her, hub, hue, hum, reb, rem, rub, rue, rum, urb.
	-4 letters: be, eh, em, er, he, hm, me, mu, re, uh, um.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-h-m-r-u"
	+1 letter: humbler.
	+2 letters: ambusher, cherubim, humblers, rhumbaed.
	+3 letters: ambushers, cherubims, hamburger, herbarium, rhombuses.
	+4 letters: bushmaster, embouchure, hamburgers, herbariums, humbuggery, thumbscrew.
	+5 letters: bumbershoot, bushmasters, embouchures, rhomboideus, semishrubby, thumbscrews, thumbsucker.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
humber college	985	college.ca humber	7
humber	118	humber snipe super	7
humber nursery	74	humber philip	6
college humber toronto	39	car humber	6
hospital humber regional river	38	college humber in toronto	5
barton humber kingdom united upon	38	humber jones sandis	5
bridge humber	18	ford humber motor	4
humber river	16	hospital humber memorial	4
guelph humber	16	hospital humber regional	4
guelph humber university	15	college.com humber	4
hospital humber river	15	humber school writer	4
college humber ontario	15	hospital humber	4
course golf humber valley	14	arboretum humber	4
humber log	13	hawk humber	3
collage humber	10	college course humber	3
golf humber valley	10	college course humber motorcycle	3
canada college humber	9	humber regional river	3
humber valley resort	9	college humber motorcycle	3
bbc humber	9	car humber scout	3
humber valley	8	humber kingdom united	3
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Anagrams: HUMBER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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