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| 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. |
| Wake·field (wāk'fēld') A borough of north-central England east-northeast of Manchester. In the Battle of Wakefield (1460) Richard Plantagenet, the third duke of York (1411-1460), was slain by Lancastrian forces in the Wars of the Roses. |