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halifax

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in West Yorkshire, from Old English halh "secluded spot" + feax "rough grass," literally "hair." In popular expressions coupled with Hull and Hell since at least 1620s.

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Halifax is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia , Canada , is one of a handful of ridings which has been represented continuously (albeit with different boundaries) in the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. The riding of Halifax includes ...

Usage examples of halifax.

A fair example of a transatlantic convoy crossing in June 1942 and of the comparatively slight improvement in antisubmarine warfare to that time, is furnished by the story of Convoy ONS-102, from Londonderry to Halifax.

It would have been a much greater surprise to the British government had it known of a highly secret meeting which Hitler had held in Berlin with his military chiefs and his Foreign Minister exactly fourteen days before his conversation with Lord Halifax.

She treated me in a motherly, free-and-easy way: not half so deferentially as she treated John Halifax.

A letter from the Danish town of Aabenraa tells how the Halifax crashed in an orchard on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord near Sonderborg.

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.

There followed a train ride of several hours, for Pictou is about a hundred and sixty kilometers from Halifax.

Halifax sorties, 71 bombed, 3 missing, 1 Do217 destroyed by crew of Sgt A.

Jill Tarter, and the Canadian papers had tried to spin it that Sarah Halifax had been the inspiration.

Unfortunately, the acquisitions budget had been stretched almost to the breaking point with the purchase and the packing and the insurance and the best the museum could afford was a Danish freighter heading out of Liverpool for Halifax.

Hoare, Simon, Halifax, Neville Chamberlain, Austen Chamberlain, Hore-Belisha, Amery, Lord Lloyd and various others enter the witness-box, all of them ready to testify that, whether Mussolini was crushing the Italian trade unions, non-intervening in Spain, pouring mustard gas on the Abyssinians, throwing Arabs out of aeroplanes or building up a navy for use against Britain, the British Government and its official spokesmen supported him through thick and thin.

The Foreign News by the Europa at Halifax, 15th, was spread out in the amplest dimensions the type of the office could supply.

Maud counted on the numerous visitors that would come to John Halifax, Esquire, of Beechwood Hall.

He missed the jubilant welcome for the returning troops at Halifax, the victory parades and so forth, but there was a special reception in Port Ticonderoga just for him.

Now, they should rig up a crane over the street door of the State house at Halifax, and when any of the pilots at either eend of the buildin', run 'em on the breakers on purpose, string 'em up like an onsafe dog.

I met a first chop Colchester gag this summer a-goin' to the races to Halifax, and he knowed as much about racin', I do suppose, as a Choctaw Ingian does of a railroad.