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What (who) is -shire - definition

IMPRINT OF BRITISH PUBLISHER BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Shire Publications; Shire Library

-shire      
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¦ combining form forming the names of counties: Oxfordshire.
Shire court         
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH INSTITUTION
Shire Moot; Shire Court; Shire moot
A Shire court, or moot was an Anglo-Saxon legal institution, used to maintain law and order at a local level, and perform various administrative functions, including the collection of taxes for the central government.
Shire of Cocos         
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Shire of Cocos; Parliament of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cocos (Keeling) Islands Shire Council
The Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is a local government area which manages local affairs on the Australian external territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (; post code: 6799). The island is grouped with Western Australia but is administered by the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities and an Administrator.

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Shire Books

Shire Books are published by Bloomsbury Publishing, a book publishing company based in London, England, and formerly by Shire Publications Ltd. and Osprey Publishing. Shire offers low priced, concise non-fiction paperbacks on a wide range of subjects. Shire books cover antiques and collectables, motoring and rural history, archaeology and Egyptology, architecture, industrial history and many other topics.

Examples of use of -shire
1. Bohemians had colonised the shire in the early ‘70s.
2. The worst areas were Bedford–shire, Buckingham– shire and Avon, down 0.5 per cent, 0.5 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively.
3. The average height of a shire horse is 17.2 hands.
4. Abdikadir Adan Shire, a warlord also known as Barre Hiraale.
5. The old Shire is a huge horse bred in England during medieval times.