Cheshire

[ chesh-er, -eer ]

/ ˈtʃɛʃ ər, -ɪər /

noun

Formerly Chester. a county in NW England. 899 sq. mi. (2328 sq. km).

a town in central Connecticut.

Also called Cheshire cheese, Chester. a hard cheese, yellowish, orange, or white in color, made of cow's milk and similar to cheddar.

Example sentences from the Web for cheshire

Cheshire County Jail in Keene, N.H., looks more like a small college campus or a tech start-up than a house of detention.

‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain |Sarah Shourd |September 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Phone services at Cheshire are also outsourced to private companies.

‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain |Sarah Shourd |September 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Cheshire is supposed to be a “short-term” facility, with 60 percent of its prisoners awaiting trial.

‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain |Sarah Shourd |September 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But at Cheshire, prisoners rarely, if ever, leave their pod.

‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain |Sarah Shourd |September 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Cheshire is less interested in the literal, chromosomal answer than the figurative one.

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A small boat in which two men were sailing capsized about 200 yards out from the Leasowe Embankment, Cheshire.

The Better Germany in War Time |Harold Picton
And unlike the Cheshire cat, he had not even left a smile behind him—had not even left Athelstan King behind him.

Caves of Terror |Talbot Mundy
This epidemic of 1702 in Lancashire and Cheshire was recorded as something unusual.

A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) |Charles Creighton
The Cheshire guns came back as there was ample without them.

New Zealanders at Gallipoli |Major Fred Waite
Will Craine, who trained ye Cheshire hounds, came in twelfth on Rib.

Old Country Inns of England |Henry P. Maskell

British Dictionary definitions for cheshire (1 of 2)

Cheshire ¹

/ (ˈtʃɛʃə, ˈtʃɛʃɪə) /

noun

a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles) Abbreviation: Ches

British Dictionary definitions for cheshire (2 of 2)

Cheshire ²

/ (ˈtʃɛʃə) /

noun

Group Captain (Geoffrey) Leonard . 1917–92, British philanthropist: awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II; founded the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Disabled: married Sue, Baroness Ryder

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