Crossword clues for cheviot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheviot \Chev"i*ot\, n.
A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
range of hills between Scotland and England, named for one of them, The Cheviot, attested from 12c. as Chiviet; of uncertain origin; the second element is perhaps Old English geat "gate."
Wiktionary
n. a coarse woolen fabric made from the wool of Cheviot sheep
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Housing Units (2000): 4338
Land area (2000): 1.162702 sq. miles (3.011384 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000556 sq. miles (0.001439 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.163258 sq. miles (3.012823 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14128
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Location: 39.157659 N, 84.612594 W
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Headwords:
Cheviot
Wikipedia
Cheviot may refer to:
Places- Cheviot, a name for the general area of the Cheviot Hills, on the borders of England and Scotland
- The Cheviot, the highest summit in the Cheviot Hills
- The city of Cheviot, Ohio, United States
- The town of Cheviot, New Zealand
- The locality of Cheviot, Victoria, Australia
- Cheviot goat, a landrace population of goats in Northern England
- Cheviot sheep, a breed of sheep originally from the borders of England and Scotland
- Cheviot (cloth), a type of tweed, made originally from the wool of the Cheviot sheep
- SS Cheviot, an English steamer ship of the late 19th century
Cheviot was a parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, from 1858 to 1890. It was named after what was then one of the country's largest sheep stations, Cheviot Hills.
Cheviot, woollen fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep and now also made from other types of wool or from blends of wool and man-made fibres in plain or various twill weaves.
Cheviot wool possesses good spinning qualities, since the fibre is fine, soft, and pliable.
Cheviot fabric has a crispness of texture similar to serge but is slightly rougher and heavier.
Cheviot fabric may be produced either from woollen or worsted yarns according to the character, texture, and feel desired in the finished fabric. Some qualities are produced from crossbred worsted yarns adapted for furnishing crispness.
Cheviot suitings for sportswear are made from harder spun worsted yarns, and some are also made from botany worsted.
Cheviot shirting is a stout, twilled, cotton fabric woven with small geometrical patterns or with warp stripes and bleached weft.
Usage examples of "cheviot".
From the Cheviots, we crossed on to the Barcoo, and then headed away for the Diamintina and the Great Plains that stretch thence beyond the Herbert River into the vast Unknown.
The son of a Tweeddale shepherd who had emigrated years before to a cheviot farm in Sutherland, he was in every line and feature the Lowlander, and his speech had still the broad intonation of the Borders.
The hail passed, and a mild blue afternoon succeeded, with the Cheviots clear on the southern sky-line.
Malcolm, and travelling by byways across the hills they crossed the Cheviots a few miles south of Carter Fell, and then rode down the wild valleys to Castletown and thence to Canobie of the Esk.
This was the landscape of the Highland Clearances, that brutal depopulation of the countryside where crofters had been driven off their land by rich landowners eager to make the easier money that came with rearing Cheviot sheep.
I saddle-pound my tired ass up to the Cheviots and back, just to pump your overinflated ego up a little more.
Perhaps, too, you would be so kind as to give us your opinion of the merits of Cheviot sheep?
I plan to leave for the Cheviot today, if this accursed rain stops, to purchase, or at least inspect, what he informs me are the most profitable of Scottish sheep.
Seriously, we purchased sheep from a rather dour old man in the Cheviot, near to Fort David.
Bertrand and I have been to the Cheviot to purchase sheep, and, of course, there have been several trips to Glasgow, to the mills, you know.
Getting the Cheviot sheep settled and all the accounts straight leaped to the fore as plausible reasons, but he realized that the huge pair of amber eyes that gazed up at him as though he were the only person on the face of the earth ranked above the sheep.
I will write ye, of course, to tell ye how we progress with the Cheviot sheep.
Its tiny dormer window looked out on to fields and, beyond them, the hills of the Cheviot countryside.
His shoes were of patent leather, his cutaway coat was of very rough black cheviot, his double-breasted waistcoat of tan covered cloth with buttons of smoked pearl.