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  • proper noun a river in Hampshire, England.

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Examples

  • I have a very old bag (20 years) that I still use and it's called Hamble (yes I named a handbag!)

    Russian Doll Swap (and help me name my baby) Katy 2008

  • All that's missing is Frank Bough, one of Benny Hill's angels and Hamble from Playschool.

    I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2011: launch night liveblog 2011

  • The Richest Man in the World's official title holder, Jack Winslow, has a plan to abolish the drizzly season of Hamble by harnessing the power of a captured dwarf sun, but everyone who opposes his project seems to wind up flash fried - from the inside!

    Jan. 12th, 2009 - Issue 0.034 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • The Richest Man in the World's official title holder, Jack Winslow, has a plan to abolish the drizzly season of Hamble by harnessing the power of a captured dwarf sun, but everyone who opposes his project seems to wind up flash fried - from the inside!

    Issue 0.034 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • The result was Hamble, always the least popular Play School toy.

    Former Play School presenters plead for gentler children's television 2010

  • Because of the limited supply in restoration projects, the future is in creating new vessels and replicas of classics, says Duncan Walker, owner of Fairlie Restorations in Hamble, England, which builds yachts from classic designs from the early 1900s.

    Still Sailing: Classic Yacht Races 2008

  • Cattle-clasm has wiped out the majority of livestock, the year now inludes the months Octember and Janril, not to mention the new season of Hamble (between spring and summer).

    Mark Gatiss Nebulous | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005

  • On our other side live a man called Hamble and his wife who display in their demeanour a constant long-suffering which I suspect in each other's company alone they find something of a strain.

    Excerpt: It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick 2005

  • She was a Thames craft that had been on a trip to Gossingham which is not too far from the Hamble.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

  • She was a Thames craft that had been on a trip to Gossingham which is not too far from the Hamble.

    Cargo of Eagles Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1968

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