Look up: shire

1. shire
   [n] - (British) a former administrative district of England 2. [n] - British breed of large heavy draft horse
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2. shire
   Administrative area formed in Britain for the purpose of raising taxes in Anglo-Saxon times. By AD 1000 most of southern England had been divided into shires with fortified strongholds at their...
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3. Shire
   Shire noun [ Anglo-Saxon scīre , scīr , a division, province, county. Confer Sheriff .] 1. A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a...
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4. shire
   shire horse noun British breed of large heavy draft horse
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5. shire
   noun a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
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6. Shire
   • (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county. • (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Ric...
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7. shire
   in Great Britain, a county. The Anglo-Saxon shire (Old English scir) was an administrative division next above the hundred and seems to have existed ... [2 related articles]
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8. Shire
   draft horse breed native to the middle section of England. The breed descended from the English `great horse,` which carried men in full battle ...
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9. Shire
   Shire or Shiré (both: shē'rā) , river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, flowing from the southern end of Lake Nyasa, Malawi, SE Africa, to the Zambezi River in central Mozambique. It is navigable to Nsanje. The upper Shire has been developed for irrigation and power production. Cotton ...
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10. shire
    Administrative area formed in Britain for the purpose of raising taxes in Anglo-Saxon times. By AD 1000 most of southern England had been divided into shires with fortified strongholds at their centres. The Midland counties of England are still known as the Shires; for example Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire
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11. Shire
    A `shire` is a traditional term for a division of land, found in the United Kingdom and in Australia. In parts of Australia, a shire is an administrative unit, but it is not synonymous with "county" there, which is a land registration unit. Individually, or as a suffix in Scotland and in t...
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12. Shire
    (disambiguation) A `shire` is an administrative district in the United Kingdom and Australia. `Shire` may also refer to one of these geographical features: `Shire` or `Shires` may also refer to:
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