Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of northwest England at the mouth of the Mersey River near Liverpool.
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- proper noun An English
topographic surname - proper noun Either of F. E. Smith, Frederick Smith or Frederick Smith the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Earls of Birkenhead
Etymologies
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Examples
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The SS Manxman was launched from Cammel [sic] Laird* in Birkenhead in 1955.
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The SS Manxman was launched from Cammel [sic] Laird* in Birkenhead in 1955.
The gender of ships 2010
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The SS Manxman was launched from Cammel [sic] Laird* in Birkenhead in 1955.
The gender of ships 2010
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In it, we sat to make experiments; and how it recalled Birkenhead!
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In it, we sat to make experiments; and how it recalled Birkenhead!
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Heavens, that a Birkenhead should be a literary character!
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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Crimestoppers, the crime-fighting charity, called the Birkenhead-born 28-year-old "one of the most wanted individuals from the latest Operation Captura appeals".
icScotland 2010
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Crimestoppers, the crime-fighting charity, called the Birkenhead-born 28-year-old "one of the most wanted individuals from the latest Operation Captura appeals".
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It was a fine evening, and there was land ahead, toward which the "Birkenhead" was steering at ordinary speed.
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On the 26th February, 1852, the "Birkenhead" went down off the Cape of
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