The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumberland \Cumberland\, Cumberland River \Cumberland River\prop. n. a tributary of the Ohio River.
Syn: .
Wikipedia
The Cumberland River is a major waterway of the Southern United States. The river drains almost of southern Kentucky and north-central Tennessee. The river flows generally west from a source in the Appalachian Mountains to its confluence with the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky, and the mouth of the Tennessee River. Major tributaries include the Obey, Caney Fork, Stones, and Red rivers.
Although the Cumberland River basin is predominantly rural, there are also some large cities on the river, including Nashville and Clarksville, both in Tennessee. In addition, the river system has been extensively developed for flood control, with major dams impounding both the main stem and many of its important tributaries.
The Cumberland River is a river of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Cumberland River is a tidal channel in the U.S. state of Georgia. It forms the northern half of the waterway that separates Cumberland Island from the Georgia mainland, connecting with Cumberland Sound to the south and St. Andrew Sound and the Satilla River to the north. It forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
The Cumberland River is a perennial river of the Corangamite catchment, located in The Otways region of the Australian state of Victoria.
Cumberland River may refer to:
- Cumberland River
- Cumberland River (Victoria)
- Cumberland River (St. Vincent)
- Cumberland River (Georgia)
Usage examples of "cumberland river".
She commanded a perfect line of fire for 180 degrees up and down the Cumberland River in Tennessee.
Not far from them was a little town called Somerset, which Dick had visited once, and near by, too, was the deep and swift Cumberland River, with much floating ice at its edges.
Fort Donelson stood on the Cumberland River about 60 miles northwest of Nashville.
He was now at the Cumberland River, twelve miles away, laying siege to Fort Donelson.
We stopped at the month of the Cumberland river, where we took in passengers.
On June 3, in a boat supplied me by my host, I began the ascent of the Cumberland River to Fort Massac where Wilkinson was waiting.
Haywood tells us of the discovery, at the beginning of this century, of three mummies in a cave on the south side of the Cumberland River (Tennessee), who were buried in baskets, as the Peruvians were occasionally buried, and whose skin was fair and white, and their hair auburn, and of a fine texture.
One was a mountain man like me, a Sackett from the Cumberland River country of Tennessee.
The two armies met again at Drainsville, Virginia, four days before Christmas, 1861, and the rebels scored another overwhelming victory along the banks of the Cumberland River in the state of Tennessee.