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hebrides

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
originally Ebudae , Haebudes , of uncertain origin. Apparently a scribal error turned -u- into -ri- . The Norse name, SuĂ°regar , "Southern Islands," is relative to the Orkneys. Related: Hebridean .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Hebrides are an archipelago of islands off the western coast of Scotland. These islands include two main groups: The Inner Hebrides The Outer Hebrides Hebrides or Hebridean may also refer to: Hebridean (sheep) , a breed of sheep Hebrides Overture , ...

Usage examples of hebrides.

New Hebrides was a world of archipelagoes and small continents, and her people were scattered too thinly to prevent the enemy from landing unopposed in far too many places.

New New Hebrides before the Theban survivors can reorganize themselves there, we will first proceed to the Danzig warp point and send a scouting force through.

There were still Asis family members in the Hebrides but they were a younger generation.

Anyway, got chatting to the vicar one night, and come closedown I'd thrown so many spanners into his faith that he had to go off to a monastery in the Hebrides for five years to recover.

It's the breeding place for every sort of beastliness - hurricanes bound for the States, big depressions that move across the North Atlantic at tremendous speed to give Iceland, and sometimes the Hebrides and the north of Scotland, wind speed almost as bad as the much-publicised Coras and Ethels and Janets and what-have-yous that cause such havoc in America.

Dickson, being at this time returning from a tour to the Hebrides and Western Highlands of Scotland, had heard of the Bell Rock works, and from their similarity to those of the Eddystone was strongly impressed with a desire of visiting the spot.

I began to believe that not only was there at least one fuelling station in the Outer Hebrides but that the islanders derived a good deal of their wealth, and therefore their security in troubled times, from the ship or ships which used such a station.

The leaves have been used in the Hebrides as a green vegetable, either boiled as greens, or eaten raw as salad, under the name of Shunis.

Others favour a transfer to the Outer Hebrides so you can counter industrial espionage into the production of Harris Tweed.

At receipt of that letter, Ard-Righ Brian the Burly had, so said his people who waited upon him, cursed and blasphemed most sulphurously, then set about recalling the bulk of his large army from campaign in the Kingdom of Connachta, his fleet from interdicting the ports of that western kingdom, and otherwise had looked to be making every preparation to mount a full-scale invasion of the Hebrides, Ulaid or both.

Drawing in to the depths of his lungs a last draught of this clean, soft air of the Hebrides, Farge crossed to the voice-pipe: he was tired, not only because of a leave spent with Lorna but also, since his second Northwood meeting, he had not wasted a second in briefing himself, and in planning how he was to achieve the objective expected of him.

Caitrin MacDougall tapped the plastic laminate of a New Hebrides Fisheries map with a bayonet and met Tulloch MacAndrews frowning eyes.

Caitrin MacDougall tapped the plastic laminate of a New Hebrides Fisheries map with a bayonet and met Tulloch MacAndrew's frowning eyes.