Northern

Definitions

1. The Northern Line of the London Underground.
2. A steam locomotive of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.
3. An inhabitant of the northern regions; a northerner.
4. A surname.
5. A genre of fiction focusing on the untamed northern territory of Canada and sometimes Alaska, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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6. The northern pike.
7. A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America, primarily in western Canada but also in Alaska, often with a Mountie as the protagonist.

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Examples

“As is the case with northerns, the female muskie, trailed by her attendant males, may broadcast⟳ eggs over several hundred yards.”

“Along the UP Trail, America's original transcontinental, mention⟳ of the 800's will long recall⟳ the capable, long-legged Northerns that were built for standard-weight limiteds but often doubled for diesels on the City streamliners.”

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