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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for SHIRES in dictionary:

VERB:

SHIRE, (Irish) to refresh or rest

NOUN:

used in reference to parts of England regarded as strongholds of traditional rural culture, especially the rural Midlands.
an administrative district in medieval times ruled jointly by an alderman and a sheriff.
a county, especially in England.
a rural area with its own elected council.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a territorial division of Great Britain

Words related to SHIRES

shire8

Words that contain SHIRES

cheshires17

How to use SHIRES in a sentence

They were sent through the shires to see that justice was done, and to report the decisions of the county courts.
He defined the boundaries of shires, which divisions are very old, and subdivided them into parishes, which have remained to this day.
The knights of the shires, who seem now to have been pretty regularly assembled, and sometimes in a separate house, made remonstrances against the slowness of their proceedings.
Then other shires were formed, and this institution became simply an administrative division.
Sheriffs were no longer appointed over the shires, and the local administration broke down as the central government had done.
The following year there was a survey of the forests, and in 1168 another circuit of the shires was made by the barons of the Exchequer.
The sources of modern standard English are to be found in the East Midland, spoken in Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and neighboring shires.
The little kingdoms coincided sometimes with a single shire, sometimes with two or more shires.
In England, therefore, the shires are older than the nation.
The shires were not made by dividing the nation, but the nation was made by uniting the shires.

He also subdued Turketillus an earle of the Danes that dwelt in that countrie, with all the residue of the noble men and barons of the shires of Bedford and Northampton.
The magnates of the eastern counties were as staunch as the northerners, and the rich and populous southern shires were for the most part in agreement with them.
Early in 1273 a parliament of magnates and representatives of shires and boroughs took oaths of allegiance to the king and continued the authority of the three regents.
Resolved to go to Flanders at all costs, he contented himself with calling upon the levies of the shires north of the Trent to protect his interests in Scotland.
But royal lieutenants and councils, shires and sheriffs, parliaments and justices had only the most superficial influence on Irish life.
In 1350 they gathered together an army in Ettrick forest with the object of invading the plague-stricken border shires.
But it is very obvious that the shires were never settled upon any regular plan, nor are they the result of any single design.
He also laid the foundation of an internal Government analagous to that established in the Shires.
The Rothesay fishery district includes all the creeks in Buteshire and a few in Argyll and Dumbarton shires, the Cumbraes being grouped with the Greenock district.
For another, far away in the western shires, cut down the thorn of Glastonbury, from which had grown the whole story of Britain.
In the principall Cities of the shires be foure chiefe Louteas, before whom are brought all matters of the inferiour Townes, throughout the whole Realme.
The men from various shires flocked eagerly to the standard of their glorious king.
The steps, by which they removed from thence to the shires of Aberdeen and Inverness, are worthy notice.
There were no elected Knights of the Shires, no representative system.
He set in all the castles strong knights in whom he could trust, and appointed justices and sheriffs and peace-sergeants in all the shires.
In the year 1652, after having passed through the shires of Nottingham and Lincoln, he came again into Yorkshire.

Similar words containing SHIRE without suffix s

shire8 shired10 cheshire16 redshire12 shireman13 shiremen13 cheshires17 shiretown15 shiretowns16

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