Definitions for Pontefract

Pontefract Pon·te·fract

Spelling: [pon-tuh-frakt; locally also puhm-frit,
IPA: /ˈpɒn təˌfrækt; locally also ˈpʌm frɪt, ˈpɒm-/

Pontefract is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 722 anagrams from letters in Pontefract (acefnoprtt).

Definitions for Pontefract

noun

  1. a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.

Examples for Pontefract

Thus at the first siege of Pontefract Castle in 1644 a cannon throwing a 42-lb.

At Pontefract he passed in review nearly forty-nine thousand men.

He was taken at Boroughbridge, led to Pontefract, and there beheaded.

He took me to Pontefract, where there were more recruits in waiting.

It was the most popular race run that year on the Pontefract course.

On the 6th, we find him still at Pontefract, and again on the 14th.

Salisbury was subsequently beheaded by the populace at Pontefract.

The Stayntons were tenants in chief of both the 'honours' of Tickhill and Pontefract.

We find him, from the 14th to the 16th, at Pontefract; on the 17th, at Doncaster.

The regiment spent a few days in Pontefract and was then disbanded.

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