The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northumbrian \North*um"bri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.
Wikipedia
Northumbrian was an early steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson in 1830 and used at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It was the last of Stephenson's 0-2-2 locomotives in the style of Rocket, but it introduced several innovations. It was the first locomotive to have the Stephenson type firebox incorporated in the boiler, and having a smokebox the full diameter of the boiler, it therefore had the first true 'locomotive' boiler. It also had plate frames, a proper tender, and the cylinders set at a relatively low angle to the horizontal, giving smoother running. The pace of development of locomotive design at the time can be seen by comparing this engine with Stephenson's Planet, produced later the same year.
Usage examples of "northumbrian".
Norlander has nothing of the Celt in him, and is as different from the Hebridean as a Northumbrian from a Cornishman.
Wilfrid, bishop of Lindisferne, acquired great merit, both with the court of Rome and with all the southern Saxons, by expelling the quartodeciman schism, as it was called, from the Northumbrian kingdom, into which the neighborhood of the Scots had formerly introduced it.
However, if the Northumbrian fleet were immobilized by the threat of the navy of the Amirate of Cordova, and the Skrellings overran the hinterland of Vinland .
She saw Saxonbury, over two hundred miles away to the north, pinned between the great encampments of the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes.