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Definition of Severn river
1. Noun. A river in Ontario that flows northeast into Hudson Bay.
2. Noun. A river in England and Wales flowing into the Bristol Channel; the longest river in Great Britain.
Group relationships: England, Cambria, Cymru, Wales
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Severn River
Literary usage of Severn river
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Coast Pilot: Containing the Courses and Distances Between the by Edmund March Blunt (1822)
"3 fathoms between New Point Comfort and severn river, muddy bottom. You may go
to sea from this river with the wind from SW to NW Directions for those bound ..."
2. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"View in class sand pit, on severn river, Md.— The tunnel shows position of bed
of glass sand. The overlying beds carry too much iron oxide. (H. Ries, photo. ..."
3. History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United by John Bassett Moore (1898)
"... 1854, having examined the severn river in the State of Maryland, United States,
do hereby agree and decide that a line bearing N. 7° W. Magnetic, ..."
4. A New Student's Atlas of English History by Emil Reich (1903)
"... post-Norman England, the severn river never formed a boundary either to kingdoms
or to shires. To fact Mip. ..."
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