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n. A former administrative division of Great Britain, equivalent to a county.

n. A Shire horse.

n. Former administrative area of Britain; a county.

n. The general area in which a person lives, used in the context of travel within the UK:

n. A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia.

n. A shire horse

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.

n. A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.

n. A share; a portion.

n. Originally, a division of the kingdom of England under the jurisdiction of an ealdorman, whose authority was intrusted to the sheriff (‘shire-reeve’), on whom the government ultimately devolved; also, in Anglo-Saxon use, in general, a district, province, diocese, or parish; in later and present use, one of the larger divisions into which Great Britain is parted out for political and administrative purposes; a county.

n. A shire-moot. See the quotation under shire-day.

An obsolete form of sheer.

n. British breed of large heavy draft horse

n. a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county

"Also, county names that end in - shire should sound like - shuh, not - shy-er."

shires    shiring   

dray horse    draught horse    draft horse    administrative division    administrative district    territorial division   

the shires   

county    count   

Gire    Gyr    Tyre    admire    afire    aspire    dire    expire    fire    gire   

citie    prouince    sillable    barony    alike