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Shire - Wikipedia The suffix -shire is attached to most of the names of English, Scottish and Welsh counties It tends not to be found in the names of shires that were pre-existing divisions
Shire | Draft Horse, Heavy Horse, Gentle Giant | Britannica Shire, draft horse breed native to the middle section of England The breed descended from the English “great horse,” which carried men in full battle armour that often weighed as much as 400 pounds
shire - Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online • The extent to which a powerful magnate could dominate the shire community and act as a focus for local sentiment varied • He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires
shire - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Originally each shire was overseen by an ealdorman, who was charged with raising levies and perhaps also overseeing the local court (though the evidence is scant on the latter point) At the heart of the shire lay the local assembly (the ‘shire court’), at which such business was conducted