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wellington
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Wikipedia
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Wellington (originally City of Wellington ), was a parliamentary electorate in Wellington , New Zealand. It existed from 1853 to 1905 with a break in the 1880s. It was a multi-member electorate. The electorate was represented, over the years, by 24 Members ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
boot so called from 1817, for Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), who also in his lifetime had a style of coat, hat, and trousers named for him as well as a variety of apple and pine tree.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES wellington boots British English , rubber boots American English (= rubber boots that stop your feet and legs getting wet ) ▪ The kids put on their rubber boots and went out in the rain. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of Wellington nodot=1 English) (the boot).
Usage examples of wellington.
Like the castle attack, it was intended to pin down enemy troops, to stop reinforcements going to the south-east corner, for it was there, at the three breaches, that Wellington knew he must win his victory.
Behind the men of Honiton came the Puritan clothworkers of Wellington, with their mayor upon a white horse beside their standard-bearer, and a band of twenty instruments before him.
That is why we shall leave the garrison in Almeida, because its presence will force Lord Wellington to fight on this bank of the Coa and when he does fight we shall destroy him.
Quite a few handlers--Bruce Wellington and Richard Reinauer, for instance-- wrote to the original dog owners and asked to be allowed to keep their dogs because of the friendship that they had developed over the years of fighting.
A Prussian courier from Ligny enters, who is conducted into the tent to WELLINGTON.
The twenty-seven-year-old beastmaster was lionized, painted by Landseer on a commission for the Duke of Wellington, and was showered with money by young noblemen for instructing them in the art of taming.
He avoided the patrolling RCMP on the grounds as he made his way eastward, finally pausing at the War Memorial that lifts proudly from the traffic circle joining Wellington, Rideau and Elgin Streets.
Battle of Waterloo, which was fought in June, 1815, after Napoleon escaped from Elba, a force of Netherlanders, some of them Dutch and some of them Belgians, fought under the Duke of Wellington, when he gained the great victory which brought peace to Europe.
After a few words from the Duke of Wellington, who expressed his apprehensions that the bill did not contain a sufficient provision for pensions, the bill went through the committee, and was afterwards read a third time and passed without a division.
Aaron Pursley turned up with about as many other lawyers as there were cops, and then Wellington Ma, in a navy blazer with gold buttons.
The troops found in the Retiro, however, were made prisoners of war on the 14th of August, so that Lord Wellington had complete possession of the Spanish capital.
Wethersfield in Essex, in 1806, then for a few months at Wellington, Salop, in 1809.
The amendment was supported by Lords Harrowby, Wharncliffe, Winchelsea, and Ellenborough, and the Duke of Wellington, and others, on the ground that its object was not to defeat schedules A and B.
Wellington needed Sharpe when there was a breach to be taken at Badajoz, but not now!
Wellington let those buggers believe in a landing so the French would be fooled.