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clydesdale
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clydesdale \Clydes"dale\, n. One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"breed of heavy draught horses," 1786, so called because they were bred in the valley of the Clyde in Scotland. The river name is perhaps literally "cleansing," from a Celtic root akin to Latin cloaca (see cloaca).
Wikipedia
Clydesdale (pronounced ; Dail Chluaidh in Scottish Gaelic, pronounced ) is an archaic name for Lanarkshire, a county in Scotland. From 1975 to 1996 it was also the name given to one of the nineteen districts of the Strathclyde region.
The district was formed by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and was roughly conterminous to Lanarkshire. In 1996 it was abolished by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and replaced by the council areas of South and North Lanarkshire.
Clydesdale is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Clydesdale is a former government district in Strathclyde, Scotland.
Clydesdale may also refer to:
Clydesdale was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005, when it was redistributed to Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, Lanark and Hamilton East and East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow as part of a major reorganisation of Scottish constituencies.
The similarly named Scottish Parliament constituency of Clydesdale continues in existence.
Clydesdale is a monster truck driven by Bennett Clark on the USHRA circuit and for other promoters.
Clark has had three trucks over the years. His first truck was a late 80's blue and silver Chevrolet Silverado that had five ton military axle housings, Rockwell PS250 planetaries, and 46 offroad shock absorbers. Clark ran this truck till 1988. His second truck was a pink and white 1989 Chevrolet Silverado with a 144" wheelbase with an extended front clip. Deciding his axles were good after two years of use, he used him on his new truck. After a rollover due to a drag race with Wild Hair to the pits at Dallas stadium in 1990, Clark decided to rebuild the truck and repaint the body all pink with silver stripes and a horse on the door. This truck was called Clydesdale 3 for this reason. At its first race, Clark was racing at Louisville Motor Speedway. In the first round, racing No Problem, Clark had a rough landing over the set of cars, causing the left rear wheel to come off and ruin his brand new body. John Moore was interviewed and was worried because he was the one that welded that flange back on after the same thing happened in Chicago, Illinois the previous year. Clark ran this truck until 1998, when he completed his current truck, Clydesdale 4. His newest truck is his best truck yet, a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado with Knight Stalker shocks. This truck has Clark 20 ton planetaries, F-106 axle housings and features a $6500 paint job. This truck also runs as Taurus at certain events. His second truck now runs as Johnny Rocket #7 monster truck.
Clydesdale was a Scottish retailer of electrical goods. At one point, it was Scotland's largest electrical retailer. The company went into liquidation in January 1994. Various assets were purchased by Scottish Power, Granada UK Rental and other companies.
Usage examples of "clydesdale".
Paddy only had to back the Leyland Clydesdale a few feet to pick up the skip.
So she jammed the yoke forward to its stop, cycling the unloaded Clydesdales up with a yowl of protest, and when she thought she had every RPM they could deliver to the pumps, recoupled the wheels.
AFTER DAWN on a Saturday in early April a Leyland Clydesdale, carrying a low-sided skip with six men in it, pulled up in what had once been a cul-de-sac.
Then they enlarged the front door and window into an opening big enough to take the Leyland Clydesdale, which was backed through it into the interior of the house.
Leyland Clydesdale seemed to fill most of what was left of the tiny, house.
Rover and Wally drove them to the empty house that backed on to the house where the Leyland Clydesdale was parked.
Ashman shouted to Joseph and Eddie - and kept down himself as the big Leyland Clydesdale shot forward and smashed through the boarded-up front of the little house with a noise like a bomb.
Conchessa and her elder sister to Calphurnius, a Briton of Clydesdale, as slaves.
I went to Biggar, in Clydesdale, where I knew the schoolmaster was an approved classical scholar.
Harrower, formerly mentioned, having come into town from Clydesdale, took pleasure in finding out whatever could interest or gratify me, and of conveying me thither.
Suzdalian boy sitting astride a Clydesdale and looking down at him in the trench.
Yet there they were, together, the cow folded down and rhythmically chewing the cud while the Clydesdale dozed with one massive hind hoof propped on its tip.
Sir Simon Lockhart, after much experience of the wonders which it wrought, brought it to his own country, and left it to his heirs, by whom, and by Clydesdale in general, it was, and is still, distinguished by the name of the Lee-penny, from the name of his native seat of Lee.
More--all the gentry of Clydesdale are on the road, commanded by the Earl of Lanark, and him and his Hamiltons are waiting to soop up the remnants of that which Argyll will shatter.
She continued to breathe deeply, readying herself to go out and dispose of that Clydesdale of a bug, but when she attempted to go, she could not move.