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Nov 30, 2009
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Wake•field



Pronunciation: (wāk'fēld"), [key]
n.
1. a city in West Yorkshire, in N England: battle 1460. 305,500.
2. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston. 24,895.
3. an estate in E Virginia, on the Potomac River: birthplace of George Washington; restored as a national monument in 1932.

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