Crossword clues for kidderminster
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kidderminster \Kid"der*min`ster\, n. A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of carpet, 1832, named for the town in England where it was manufactured.
Wiktionary
n. A type of two-ply carpet once manufactured in the town of the same name
Wikipedia
Kidderminster is a large town in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately north of Worcester city centre. The 2011 census recorded a population of 55,530 in the town. The town is twinned with Husum, Germany and it forms the majority of the Wyre Forest Conurbation, an urban area of 99,000.
Kidderminster was a parliamentary constituency in Worcestershire, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Usage examples of "kidderminster".
Stafford and Wolverhampton to Kidderminster and the South, and that from Halesowen to Bridgenorth, cross each other at Kinver, and a bridge traverses the Stour, near Stourton Castle, once a royal residence, and one that was a favourite with King John.
He was the connecting link between the generation which lived in ease, and even a kind of state, upon its own resources, and the new brood, which must live mainly by its wits or industry, and make itself rich, or shabbily subside into that lower stratum known to social geologists by a deposit of Kidderminster carpets and the peculiar aspect of the fossils constituting the family furniture and wardrobe.
And to come down to the truly Pauline succession of ministers in our own lands and in our own churches, what preachers and what pastors Christ gave to Kidderminster, and to Bedford, and to Down and Connor, and to Sodor and Man, and to Anwoth, and to Ettrick, and to New England, and to St.
Winchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Kidderminster, Cambridge, Birkenhead and Sheffield.
In the vast woodlands which stretched to the forest of Wyre, beyond Kidderminster, there were many places where bands of men might lurk for days together, and make forays on private houses at a distance from their regular rendezvous.
Similar houses were to be found in towns as far apart as Middlesbrough, Darlington, York, Leicester, Brighton, Swindon and Kidderminster, as well as the outer suburbs of London.
And here you are in this jungle juju joint when you could have been snapping petits fours with the vicar of Kidderminster or some damn such.
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.
Why, a Turkey or a Persian, or even a Wilton or a Kidderminster carpet, is as much the garb of the wooden floor inside, as the grass is of the earthen floor outside of your house.
Hartlebury Common, and were soon close upon Kidderminster, but did not deem it prudent to enter the town.
Notice, too, that Kidderminster plays Cupid, the ancient Roman god of love, usually portrayed as a young boy with a bow and arrow.