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township: see town town, in the United States. In the New England states the town is the basic unit of local government . The New England town government's unique feature is the town meeting, much praised as a nearly pure form of democracy. ..... Click the link for more information. . township 1. a small town 2. (in the Scottish Highlands and islands) a small crofting community 3. (in the US and Canada) a territorial area, esp a subdivision of a county: often organized as a unit of local government 4. (formerly, in South Africa) a planned urban settlement of Black Africans or Coloured people 5. English history a. any of the local districts of a large parish, each division containing a village or small town b. the particular manor or parish itself as a territorial division c. the inhabitants of a township collectively How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The raiment of Marco and his wife was of coarse tow-linen and linsey-woolsey respectively, and resembled township maps, it being made up pretty exclusively of patches which had been added, township by township, in the course of five or six years, until hardly a hand's-breadth of the original garments was surviving and present. And the next day he brought me the name of the township of Yea, some fifty miles north of Melbourne; but, with the vagueness which characterized all his information, he was unable to say whether I should find my relative there or not. Besides these bands, a less orderly and a worse armed force, consisting of the Saxon inhabitants of the neighbouring township, as well as many bondsmen and servants from Cedric's extensive estate, had already arrived, for the purpose of assisting in his rescue. |
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