Cumberlandn.

1949 F. Gerrard Bk. of Meat Trade I. xvi. 290 The coarse cut sausage of Cumberland..compared with the finer cut sausage of London and the South of England generally.]

1966 Meat Trades Jrnl. 7 Apr. 3/1 ‘Mr S., Pork Butcher and Cumberland Sausage Maker, near the Co-Op, New Brighton, Wallasey, Cheshire’..was the address on a letter delivered to Elston's..last week.

1976 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 4 Dec. 14/6 (advt.) Cumberland sausage (loose) only 32p per lb.

1980 D. St. J. Thomas Breakfast Bk. v. 40 Georgette had one of the tastiest cheese omelettes of all time, along with a slice of my substantial Cumberland sausage.

1823 W. Litt Wrestliana 32 We trust a due consideration will materially reduce the strength of the objections so warmly urged against our Cumberland mode of wrestling.

1823 W. Litt Wrestliana 34 If the trial be made, many of the Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestlers will find them sufficient work in their own way.

1889 W. Armstrong Wrestling in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 204 The variation of falls, and of manœuvres leading up to them are even more endless than in the Cumberland and Westmoreland style.

1889 W. Armstrong Wrestling in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 205 The hands are not obliged to remain locked, as in the Cumberland style.

1934 E. J. Harrison Wrestling ii. 16 Alike, therefore, in the Cumberland and Westmorland, Græco-Roman, Catch-as-Catch-Can, All-in, or even the Japanese sumo styles of the art, lightweights do not usually contend against heavyweights.

1968 G. Kent Pict. Hist. Wrestling v. 121 (caption) Dinnie's ‘Scottish’ style of wrestling was out of favour by the time he died in 1916, and Cumberland gained ground again. Here a Cumberland swing is performed in front of the Royal Enclosure..Braemar..(1955).

1983 P. Bills Wrestling 14 In Cumberland and Westmorland, a wrestler is considered the loser if any part of his body except his feet touches the canvas.

1811 R. Henderson Breeding Swine i. i. 14 The Berkshire pig..generally of a brown, or rather reddish colour..; the ears bending forward, but not hanging down so much as those of the large Cumberland kind.

1860 S. Sidney Youatt's Pig (ed. 2) i. ii. 17 At the Carlisle show of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Cumberland pigs shown in the large classes were roach-backed brutes.

1860 S. Sidney Youatt's Pig (ed. 2) i. ii. 21 The small Cumberland is a great deal larger than the small Yorkshire.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 365 Varieties of the Domesticated Hog... Native—Berkshire, Essex, York, and Cumberland.

1949 J. E. Nichols in F. Gerrard Bk. Meat Trade I. ii. 31 The Cumberland breed is..all white in colour, and compared with the Large White is shorter, wider and more thickly fleshed.

1985 Times 5 Dec. 14/5 At least 20 breeds of farm animal have become extinct this century. They include..the Cumberland pig,..as recently as 1963.

1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock xvii. 221 It is at least possible that the genetic make-up of this breed includes contributions from the Lincolnshire Curly Coat, the Cumberland, and the forerunners of the Large White.