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Newmarket

Newmarket \New"mar`ket\, n. [From Newmarket, England.] A long, closely fitting cloak.

WordNet
newmarket
  1. n. a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century

  2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan, Chicago, boodle, stops]

Gazetteer
Newmarket, NH -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Hampshire
Population (2000): 5124
Housing Units (2000): 2359
Land area (2000): 1.937133 sq. miles (5.017152 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.087888 sq. miles (0.227629 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.025021 sq. miles (5.244781 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52260
Located within: New Hampshire (NH), FIPS 33
Location: 43.077382 N, 70.939518 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 03857
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Newmarket, NH
Newmarket
Wikipedia
Newmarket (UK Parliament constituency)

Newmarket is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the splitting up of the three member Cambridgeshire constituency into three single member divisions in 1885. The seat was abolished in 1918.

Newmarket

Newmarket is the name of numerous places and things.

Newmarket (MBTA station)

Newmarket is a passenger rail station on the MBTA Commuter Rail's Fairmount Line, located off Massachusetts Avenue at Newmarket Square in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The station has two 800-foot high-level platforms and sloping walkways connecting it to Massachusetts Avenue. Originally planned to be in service in 2011, it opened on July 1, 2013 along with Four Corners/Geneva Ave.

Newmarket (Hampton, Virginia)

Newmarket is a division in both Hampton and in Newport News.

This division is furthest corner in Hampton and runs into Newport News. The area was known for the formal Newmarket north mall today the NETcenter. The area includes a housing neighborhood and an apartment complex. The area was formed in the 1960s during the time when Hampton was Elizabeth City County this area was once farms and plantations after the merge with Hampton and the expansion of Military Highway or Mercury Boulevard. this section boomed with a neighborhood and a mall. the mall stayed open until 2003 the government bought the building.

Usage examples of "newmarket".

Philpot Curran was born at Newmarket, a small village in the county of Cork, on the 24th of July, 1750.

Julius Apollo Filmer had been accused of conspiring to murder a stable lad who had been unwise enough to say loudly and drunkenly in a Newmarket pub that he knew things about Mr.

Wednesday afternoon on the trial ground past the Limekilns, a long way out of Newmarket.

Oliver I spent a silent hour or two by myself while smooth cogwheels like quiet fruit machines clicked gently into place, and I made at the end of that time two telephone calls, one to the Bedford Lodge Hotel in Newmarket and the other to the Met Office at Bracknell.

England for the Newmarket Yearling Sales, a bloodstock agent on a large scale in the States keeping tabs on the worldwide scene.

As Treddleford was about to pass out of the room he encountered Amblecope, also passing out, on his way to the billiard-room, where, perchance, some luckless wight might be secured and held fast to listen to the number of his attendances at the Grand Prix, with subsequent remarks on Newmarket and the Cambridgeshire.

He claims to be the first gentleman of England, but the gentlemen of England have responded by blackballing his friends at their clubs, and by warning him off from Newmarket under suspicion of having tampered with a horse.

The driver due to transfer Jericho Rich's six fillies to Newmarket had already arrived in the farmyard, as for some unspecified reason Michael Watermead had wanted them to leave his stable earlier in the morning than the load of two-year-olds the day before.

I explained to Nigel, the driver, that Michael wouldn't be sending any of his own lads to care for the fillies ('Jericho can whistle for favours, bloody man') but that a car with a couple of lads would be coming over from the destination trainer in Newmarket.

The only hiccup, a very minor one, seemed to have been that Michael Watermead's fillies had set off an hour and a half late to Newmarket.

Historically the person accused at a Newmarket horse racing enquiry had to stand there on the carpet, and that's the origin of the phrase, to be carpeted.

Yes, their man motorcycled to Newmarket and identified Mr Quigley's house, and yes, a Mr Quigley had received the envelope, and signed for it, and it wasn't their fault that Mr Quigley was now complaining that the Zipalong courier hadn't arrived, and that at the time of delivery he, Quigley, had been at Cheltenham races.

I don’t know what time the papers get to the shops in Cambridge, but not a great deal before five, I shouldn’t think, and there couldn’t have been much time for anyone to buy twenty or so papers in Cambridge and deliver them, folded and marked, to addresses all over Newmarket, twenty miles away, before the newsboys here started on their rounds.

Pauli Teksa rapturized about Newmarket and compared it favourably with every American track from Saratoga to Gulf Stream Park.

He tells me that I had refereed him some years before when a Newmarket XV visited Cambridge.