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

noun. A Shire horse.

noun. A share; a portion.

noun. 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.

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

An obsolete form of sheer.

noun. 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.

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

noun. See under Knight.

noun. an officer of a county court; also, an under sheriff.

noun. the county court; sheriff's turn, or court.

noun. the reeve, or bailiff, of a shire; a sheriff.

noun. the capital town of a county; a county town.

noun. a county; a shire.

noun. Former administrative area of Britain; a county.

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

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

noun. A shire horse

noun. British breed of large heavy draft horse

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

"The book is arranged geographically, and in all cases the English word "shire" is omitted, with the result that we come upon such an extremely curious monster as "le Comté de Shrop.""

the shires  

administrative district  administrative division  draft horse  draught horse  dray horse  

Gire  Gyr  Tyre  admire  afire  

alike  barony  citie  prouince  sillable  

Kreis  archbishopric  archdiocese  arrondissement  bailiwick  

shires  shiring