Berkshire

Definitions

1. An inland county of England, bounded by Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Greater London and Wiltshire.
2. A breed of pig from Berkshire county.
3. Numerous places in the United States:
4. A community in Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
5. A steam locomotive of the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement.
6. A town in Tioga County, New York.
7. An unincorporated community and township in Delaware County, Ohio.
8. A town in Franklin County, Vermont.

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Examples

“My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay⟳ £65 per night for a single room.”

“Erie, always an interesting road to watch⟳, fortified itself in the late '20's with the largest roster of Berkshires in the land⟳, and these engines were easily able to sustain the road until dieselization …”

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