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The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent. From here to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank and North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire on the south bank. Although the Humber is an estuary from the point at which it is formed, many maps show it as the River Humber.
Below Trent Falls, the Humber passes the junction with the Market Weighton Canal on the north shore, the confluence of the River Ancholme on the south shore; between North Ferriby and South Ferriby and under the Humber Bridge; between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Kingston upon Hull on the north bank (where the River Hull joins), then meets the North Sea between Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin (but rapidly changing) headland of Spurn Head to the north.
Ports on the Humber include the Port of Hull, Port of Grimsby, Port of Immingham, as well as lesser ports at New Holland and North Killingholme Haven. The estuary is navigable here for the largest of deep-sea vessels. Inland connections for smaller craft are extensive but handle only one quarter of the goods traffic handled in the Thames.
Humber may refer to:
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Rivers
- The Humber, a river and large tidal estuary in northern England.
- Humber River (Newfoundland), Newfoundland, Canada
- Humber River (Toronto), Ontario, Canada
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People
- Humber the Hun was a legendary king of the Huns
- Philip Humber, a pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Thomas Humber, founder of the Humber bicycle company
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Places
- Humber, Devon, England, UK
- Humber, Hereford and Worcester, England, UK
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Education
- Humber College, both campuses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Vehicles
- Humber Limited manufactured cars, commercial vehicles, bicycles and motorcycles. It was from 1932 a member of the Rootes Group
- Humber Light Reconnaissance Car and Humber Armoured Car were British reconnaissance vehicles during World War II.
- Humber Cycles
- Humber Motorcycles
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Vessels
- HMS Humber was the name of nine ships of the Royal Navy.
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Geology
- Humber Zone, one of the 5 tectonostratographic zones of the Appalachian Mountains
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Information Technology
- Humber (hypertext), a Digital object identifier-like scheme proposed by Ted Nelson for Project Xanadu. A portmanteau of humongous number.
Humber was a provincial electoral district (riding) in Ontario, Canada. It was created prior to the 1955 provincial election from parts of the York West and York South ridings. It was eliminated in 1996, when most of its territory was incorporated into the ridings of Etobicoke Centre and Etobicoke—Lakeshore. Humber was located in the municipalities of York, Toronto, and Etobicoke.
The riding went through two name changes and several boundary changes during its lifetime. From 1955 to 1963 it was known as York—Humber and existed mostly on the east side of the Humber River. From 1963 to 1987 it was known as Humber, and in 1987 it was changed to Etobicoke-Humber. From 1963 onwards it was mostly on the west side of the river.
Usage examples of "humber".
I realized that I had had no reason to notice the name Humber before seeing him and his horse and talking to his lad at Leicester, but if I had missed one name occurring three times, I could have missed others as well.
I could turn up at every course where Humber had a runner, looking seedier and seedier and more and more ready to take any job at all, and one day the lad-hungry stable would take the bait.
England on Christmas night feeling as physically and mentally fit as I had ever been in my life, and ready to take on the worst that Humber could dish out.
I hung over the rails by the saddling boxes and watched his head traveling lad saddle up, while Humber himself leaned on his knobbed walking stick and gave directions.
He kept giving wary, startled-animal glances at Humber, and staying out of his sight on the far side of the horse as much as possible.
But even granted that Humber only employed the dregs, his arrangements were very nearly inhuman.
The head lad, who did one horse himself, appeared to have very little authority, contrary to the practice in most other training stables, and it was Humber himself who gave the orders and who made sure they were carried out.
This glossy window dressing cost Humber nothing but an occasional gallon of paint and a certain amount of slave driving.
I had been allotted a quartet consisting of two racehorses that belonged, as far as I could make out, to Humber himself, and two hunters.
While racing was suspended, Humber could dope no horses, and there was no opportunity for me to see what difference it made to his routine when the racing was scheduled for any of the five courses with long run-ins.
With Humber and Jud Wilson away at the races, though, and with Cass gone home to his midday meal, I reckoned I could go into the office to search while the rest of the lads were eating.
Mickey, I thought, who belonged to Adams, but neither Adams nor Humber nor Cass had let Jerry know it.
Granted Humber was away at Nottingham races and had not spent long in the office in the morning, but the tidiness was basic, not temporary.
Wednesday Humber ran another horse, and I missed my lunch to have a look inside his house while he was away.
It had been an injustice to think Humber might turn tail and leave me there alone: he behaved as coldly as ever, as if fear was quite beyond his imagination.