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HAMPSHIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep
Synonyms:
Hampshire; Hampshire down
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Hampshire" is a kind of...):
domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A county of southern England on the English Channel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)
Meronyms (parts of "Hampshire"):
Winchester (a city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire)
New Forest (an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies)
Holonyms ("Hampshire" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
The Hampshire pig has black skin and hair covering most of its body with a white portion of skin covering its front limbs and back.
(Hampshire Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
I shall go down to Hampshire quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester to-morrow.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then I remembered that Fordingbridge was in Hampshire, and that this Mr. Beddoes, whom the seaman had gone to visit and presumably to blackmail, had also been mentioned as living in Hampshire.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But if my colleague of Hampshire has no scruples about its being brought off within his jurisdiction, I should very much like to see the fight, with which he spurred his horse up an adjacent knoll, from which he thought that he might gain the best view of the proceedings.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ha! one of the old strain of Hampshire Edricsons, I doubt not.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of the oldest original early American pig strains, the Hampshire pig originated from the Old English breed and was imported to North American in the mid-1800s.
(Hampshire Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles on the far side of Winchester.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If I might venture to offer you a word of advice, said the affable official, it would be to make for the Hampshire line, for Sir James Ford, on the Surrey border, has as great an objection to such assemblies as I have, whilst Mr. Merridew, of Long Hall, who is the Hampshire magistrate, has fewer scruples upon the point.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Pardieu! here is a paladin come over, with the Hampshire mud still sticking to his shoes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
