HUMBER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Humber

... gave me a penny, and told me to go home and grow, and come again in ten years' time. I didn't dream of danger then. If I couldn't be a engine-driver, I was determined to have something to do about a engine; so, as I could get nothing else, I went on board a Humber steamer, and broke up coals for the stoker. That was how I began. From that, I became a stoker, first on board a boat, and then on a locomotive. Then, after two years' service, I became a driver on the ...

— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens

... safe at Scarbro', And one has reach'd the Tyne, And two are in the Humber, And one at ...

— Yorkshire Dialect Poems • F.W. Moorman