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Pembroke

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Pembroke, Canada, Tobago, UK, USA 1. Canada (Ontario): founded in 1828 and named after the Honourable Sidney Herbert (1810–61), second son of the 11th Earl of Pembroke and later 1st Baron Herbert of Lea; he was secretary for war (1852–4, 1859–60).2. UK (Wales): formerly Pennbro and Pembroch ‘Land at the End’ from the Welsh pen ‘end’ and bro ‘land’. The Welsh name is Penfro.3. USA (New Hampshire): named after Henry Herbert (1693–1751), 9th Earl of Pembroke, a Lord Justice while King George II^† was out of the country in 1740, 1743, and 1748; he was related by marriage to the governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth.

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Pembroke

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Pembroke , town (1991 pop. 13,997), SE Ont., Canada, NW of Ottawa, on the Ottawa River. It is a lumbering center and also has steel and electric-products factories.

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Pembroke

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Pembroke •betook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook •handbook •chapbook, scrapbook •cash book • passbook • sketchbook •chequebook • textbook •daybook, playbook •casebook • phrase book • dybbuk •pocketbook • copybook • storybook •guidebook • logbook • songbook •scorebook • hornbook • sourcebook •notebook • cookbook • yearbook •picture book • wordbook • workbook •caoutchouc • Windhoek • billhook •fishhook • skyhook • buttonhook •tenterhook • wet look • outlook •Inuk • inglenook • Sihanouk •Pembroke • Innsbruck • donnybrook •Uruk • Osnabrück • Beaverbrook •nainsook

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