Subject: Cumberground -- the decision is yours

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:32:16 EDT

A 1-point and a 2-point definition from among the following by Monday, 5/28, please.

- MyS

cumberground - n. &#8211; anything utterly worthless and in people&#8217;s way

cumberground - n. - a rocky hillside 

cumberground - n. - an area of grassland where cattle gather to sleep

cumberground - n. - A section of railroad right-of-way under construction where the track bed has been prepared with ballast, but ties and rails have not yet been set

cumberground - adj. - overstuffed, grotesque, obscenely obese

cumberground - n. - agricultural land formed over the terminal moraine of a glacier, often unsuitable for crops, but adequate for the grazing of sheep, cattle, or other hoofed mammals; in appearance there are usually slightly sloped grassy fields with a number of boulders

cumberground - n. - [Cumberland Mine, Nova Scotia] A memorial to miners who perished in an accident

cumberground - n. - a village square where contests of strength, such as wrestling, take place on market days

cumberground - adj. - of anthracite coal, milled to the fineness of rice for use in screw-fed furnaces   -n.- coal thus milled. Originally a trademark of the Cumberland Mining Company

cumberground - n. - a patch of land where one buries unwanted items