Crossword-Solution: SCIR
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCIR | anagram | CIRS, CRIS, IRCS, RICS, RISC |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SCIR”
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| ANGLO-SAXON shire | 1 answer |
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
SDRLOA
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with SCIR (5)
Collingwood's _William the Wanderer_, also called Surclin, both words being a corrupt form, it is suggested, of Scir-Illigh, the old name of the parish of Kildonan.
Kildonan; Frakark's homesteads; connection with Scone; owned by Hugo Freskyn; earl Ragnvald sends messengers to Frakark; part of lordship of Sutherland; old name Scir-Illigh.
Mary Woolnoth’s church, where, turning south and breaking into small shares, rills, or streams, it left the name of Share-borne Lane,” or as he had also read it, South-borne Lane, “because it ran south to the river Thames.” Wheatley thinks that _Scrieburne_, from _scir_, a share (_sciran_, to divide), is the more likely etymology.
Its gemot was not only the scir-gemot but the folc-gemot also, the assembly of the people; its ealdorman commanded not merely the military force of the hundreds, but the lords of the franchises and the church vassals with their men.
The technical name for such a union is in Germany a Gau or Bant; in England the ancient name Ga has been almost universally superseded by that of Scir or Shire.