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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sheffield was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 1832 to 1885. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of elections. The constituency encompassed the urban part of ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manufacturing city in Yorkshire, noted for cutlery and metalwork since at least 14c. The name is from late Old English Scafeld "Open Land by the River Sheaf," an Old English river name, perhaps from sceaĆ° "boundary."

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2949 Housing Units (2000): 1147 Land area (2000): 10.816601 sq. miles (28.014867 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.002348 sq. miles (0.006080 sq. km) Total area (2000): 10.818949 sq. miles (28.020947 sq. km) FIPS code: 72060 Located within: ...

Usage examples of sheffield.

Sinjin said, indicating a Sheffield cachepot on the top of a bureau near the door.

Send a check or money order to my friend Omar Sheffield, 968-1911, Box 968, Coxsackie Correctional Facility, Coxsackie, New York 12051.

Sheffield could answer, there was a discreet tap on the door of the Star Chamber and Saul Dagenham was ushered in.

Exhibition games between the two clubs were played at Liverpool, Manchester, London, Sheffield and Dublin, the Boston Club winning eight games and the Athletics six.

The dead: Kloof, Sheffield, Beziers, Travers, Gorlitz, Auchincloss, Daimamoto.

Winchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Kidderminster, Cambridge, Birkenhead and Sheffield.

Brighton, Exeter, Kidderminster, Portsmouth, Ayr, Folkestone, Manchester, Sheffield, Aberystwyth, York, all these and many more will greet me on my first tour, as well as the capital itself, where I have several dates.

Among the towns which were proposed to be comprehended were Macclesfield, Stockport, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Brighton, Whitehaven, Wolverhampton, Sunderland, Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Dudley, Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield, North and South Shields, and it was stated that the same principle would extend to the representation of such large cities as Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Belfast.

Real Sheffield plate has the mellow, milkier sterling look instead of the harsh pure silver coat of electroplating.

Scan Valley southeast of Rawalpindi, argues Robin Dennell, the field director of the Paleolithic Project of the British Archaeological Mission and the University of Sheffield.

He also carried two wicked Sheffield carving knives in lieu of daggers, and a red ripstop backpack.

I had an idea, and I got Grierson to drive into Sheffield for me and buy all the magic tricks he could find, and to see if there were any books that told you how to do it.

Sheffield to address some academics from Eastern Europe about pollution in the Mediterranean.

It was at Sheffield, in the county of Yorkshire, already famous in the annals of crime as the county of John Nevison and Eugene Aram, that Peace first saw the light.

And now, years later, other bodies had been discovered, battered barmaids in towns where he had lived, and finally the one in Sheffield which, after tests, had been identified as Rene.