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Sheffield

manufacturing city in Yorkshire, noted for cutlery and metalwork at least since 14c. The name is from late Old English Scafeld "Open Land by the River Sheaf," an Old English river name, perhaps from sceað "boundary."

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Definitions of Sheffield from WordNet

Sheffield (n.)
a steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry;
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