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What does Wearmouth mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Wearmouth? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. The Saxon name for the area on each side of the mouth of the River Wear, including Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth, that later became Sunderland
  2. A surname​.
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Bede was offered as an oblate to the monastery of Wearmouth when he was only seven years old and spent his whole life as a monk.
Extracts are from a letter of Cuthbert, afterwards Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, to his friend Cuthwin.
Malcolm decided on war, and took his army south into Cumbria and across the Pennines, wasting Teesdale and Cleveland then marching north, loaded with loot, to Wearmouth.
Tracy Kyte and fiance Byrne Lincoln battered Sean Wearmouth with a scaffold pole then cut his throat before dumping his naked body in a shallow pond.
Wade hopes to have Arran Wearmouth and Nathan Buddle available.
Earlier, hooligans pelted riot police and uniformed officers with bottles after numerous incidents on the Wearmouth Bridge approach to the stadium.

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