cumberland gap

English Thesaurus

1. a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	mountain pass, notch, pass,
definition	:	the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks (noun.object)

part meronym	:	cumberland mountains, cumberland plateau,
definition	:	the southwestern part of the Appalachians (noun.object)