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kilkenny

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kilkenny is a nitrogenated Irish cream ale from the makers of Guinness , which originated in Kilkenny , Ireland . The brand is managed and produced by Diageo . It is available in draught and cans. It is brewed in Ireland and its heritage dates back to the ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
county in Leinster, Ireland. The county is named for its town, from Irish Cill Chainnigh "Church of (St.) Kenneth." The story of the Kilkenny cats, a pair of which fought until only their tails were left, is attested from 1807.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 148 Housing Units (2000): 61 Land area (2000): 0.122741 sq. miles (0.317897 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.122741 sq. miles (0.317897 sq. km) FIPS code: 33110 Located within: Minnesota ...

Usage examples of kilkenny.

Tina and her Nine Battalion would strike south through Offaly, Laois, and Kilkenny.

The guard yawned and scratched, staring around into the darkness, but Kilkenny lay among the clumps of bunch grass and was not worried.

Red brought up short and in the split second of hesitation, Kilkenny grabbed his outstretched arm and threw his back under him, jerking him over the rail and off his back with a flying mare.

This story shows Dickson's skill, as he takes two human characters, making neither one sympathetic or easy to identify with, and still creates an engrossing story where these Kilkenny Cats flummox the belligerent aliens.

There has always been bad blood between the Table Hill and the Three Points, and until they wipe each other out after the manner of the Kilkenny cats, it is probable that there always will be.

It seemed probable that the engagement would last till the combatants had consumed each other, after the fashion of the Kilkenny cats, when there suddenly appeared from nowhere a young man in grey.

I think the Plutonian electorate had the Kilkenny cats in mind: throw them together, stand back, and in a little while there would be just teeth, hair, and eyeballs left.

The wall was pierced by stobor traps, narrow tunnels just big enough for the vicious little beasts and which gave into deep pits, where they could chew on each other like Kilkenny cats- which they did.

The wall was pierced by stobor traps, narrow tunnels just big enough for the vicious little beasts and which gave into deep pits, where they could chew on each other like Kilkenny cats which they did.

Nothing wrong with the individual in most cases-but collectively we're the Kilkenny Cats, unable to do anything but starve and fight and eat each other.

In Kilkenny there was nothing over five storeys, and Loafers himself had lived all his life in a suburban bungalow.

Yet deep within her she knew it was not only possible but probable, for Kilkenny moved in the loneliest places, and the newest countries, and this one was new.