1) Actress in Rocky 2) Actress talia 3) Administrative district 4) Administrative division 5) Avon or Cornwall 6) Avon or Devon 7) Ayr or Perth 8) Berks or Dorset 9) British breed of draft horse 10) British county 11) British draft horse 12) Cambridge or Devon 13) Company of Jersey 14) County abroad
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1) County
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A shire is a traditional term for a division of land, found in the United Kingdom and Australia. In some rural parts of Australia, a shire is a local government area, however it is not synonymous with `county`, which is, in Australia, a lands administrative division. Individually, or as a suffix in Scotland and in the far northeast of England, t.....
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• (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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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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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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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 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 distri...
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n] - (British) a former administrative district of England 2. [n] - British breed of large heavy draft horse
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was originally a type of a subdivision of a county; some shires evolved into administrative areas equivalent to a county; a shire was headed by a shire reeve (becoming sheriff, in Saskatchewan the mayor of a rural municipality is a reeve); shires were most commonly subdivided into hundreds, but other types of subdivisions were also made
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shire horse noun British breed of large heavy draft horse
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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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