The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumbrian \Cum"bri*an\ (k?m"br?-an), a. Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
Cumbrian system (Geol.), the slate or graywacke system of rocks, now included in the Cambrian or Silurian system; -- so called because most prominent at Cumberland.
Usage examples of "cumbrian".
Staggering that so huge a man should run so swiftly and keep the ball at his toe with so astounding an accuracy, but now he was away from them all, the field streaming at his feet, and in his size, strength and beauty he joined partnership with the strength and beauty of the scene, the grand type of all Cumbrian strength, sureness of purpose, largeness of grasp, as good as anything the world has seen, and as lasting.
Around a pathetic piece of old jurisprudence I have gathered a mass of Cumbrian folk-lore and folk-talk with which I have been familiar from earliest youth.
A small portion of the dialogue is written in a much modified form of the Cumbrian dialect.
I have chosen to give a broad outline of Cumbrian dialect, such as bears no more exact relation to the actual speech than a sketch bears to a finished picture.
The head of the house, Angus Ray, came to the district early in life from the extreme Cumbrian border.
The brightness of noon had now given place to the chill leaden atmosphere of a Cumbrian December.
A burly Cumbrian came into the box, and gave the name of Thomas Scroope.
From the Channel to the Tyne they call us the Spoonbills, and on Cumbrian moors they know us as the Bog-blitters.
The rains filled the streams and mosses, and their progress was slow, so that for days they were entangled among the high Cumbrian hills.
Many did, indeed, remain, and the settlements they made in the lake country have left traces which even to the present day may be recognized, not only in the remains of heathen temples and tombs, but also in the names of places and in certain Norse words that occur in the common speech of the Cumbrian folk.
I enjoyed the shooting, the fishing and the wilds of the Cumbrian landscape, or if I was able to perform my conjugal duty with mutual and satisfactory regularity?
He alone knew that in the hills of Harclow and other Cumbrian lands there were many caves, ancient caves, in which animals had lived since time began.
Northumbria had always been a bone of contention amongst the warring powers, wedged as it was between the Saxon kingdom to the south and the lands of the Scots, Cumbrians and Strathclyde Welsh to the north and northwest.
He called while you were out: he'sback from the Cumbrian badgers and wants me there assoon as possible.
In the 17th-century Civil War, the Cumbrians were generally loyal to the Stewarts.