Look up: shire

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   Shire
   The Shire is a river in south east Africa. It rises in the south-east corner of Lake Nyasa and joins the Zambezi near Shamo.
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   shire
   [n] - (British) a former administrative district of England 2. [n] - British breed of large heavy draft horse
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   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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   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 county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wilt shire , York shire , Richmond shire , Hallam shire . ...
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   shire
   shire horse noun British breed of large heavy draft horse
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   shire
   noun a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
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   Shire
   A `shire` is an administrative area of Great Britain and Australia. The first shires were created by the Anglo-Saxons in what is now central and southern England. Shires were controlled by a royal official known as a `shire reeve` or sheriff. Historically shires were sub-divided into hundreds or wapentakes although other less common sub-divisions existed. In modern English usage shires are sub-divided into districts. Individually, or as a suffix...
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   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, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.Shire: words in the defini...
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   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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    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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    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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