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shire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shire horse |
| Type of | draught horse, draft horse, dray horse |
shire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
Examples of shire
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VicRoads data shows there were 20 fatalities in the shire between 2003 and 2007.
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
A shire spokesperson said a long term plan for the area was yet to be confirmed.
From the starnewsgroup.com.au
In each English shire, the Sheriff was the king's representative in all matters.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They are the best examples of a group of 45 such cairns found in Inverness-shire.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The state government has also pledged funding for a new high school in the shire.
From the smh.com.au
He gives the employment history of an Aboriginal area shire in the past 30 months.
From the theaustralian.com.au
The mistake happened at Loughborough Crematorium, Leicester-shire, last month.
From the independent.co.uk
Wollondilly shire had 10,000 people when Mitchell arrived as a council bureaucrat.
From the smh.com.au
Kinross-shire and Clackmannanshire are arguably survivals from such districts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
- British breed of large heavy draft horse
- 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.
- The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. ...
- (The Shires) Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the ageing and run-down Haymarket Centre, also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and High Street. ...
- Former administrative area of Britain; a county; The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK:; A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia; A shire horse
- The SHIRE functionality is responsible for helping to associate a browser user with an identifier that the IdP and SP can both refer to. It is now part of the SP package.
- An royal administrative unit comprising a portion of the country, overseen by a sheriff.
- A mythical English locality where the Faire is set (It often has its own name, i.e. "Chipping-Under-Oakwood" for the RPF Faires in California. "Chipping" is derived from the same word as "cheap," and means "market.") -- Likewise, "Ah, the fair Shire of the South Bay, yes, I know that area."
