cumberland gap

1. 1.

   a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west

   Broaderpass

   Part ofCumberland Mountains

Questions about cumberland gap

What does cumberland gap mean?

cumberland gap means "a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west".

Is cumberland gap a common word?

cumberland gap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.