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shire
noun
- any of the former districts or regions in Great Britain
- any of the counties of England, esp. one with a name ending in -shire
- any of a breed of large, powerful draft horse with feathery fetlocks, originally raised in the Shires and much used in the Middle Ages as a war horse
river in SE Africa, flowing from Lake Malawi south into the Zambezi: c. 250 mi (402 km)
See shire in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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