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  • 111Westport United F.C. — Westport United Football Club are an amateur football club in Westport, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland. Founded in 1911, they are the oldest football club in County Mayo and they wear red and black stripes. They play their home games at… …

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  • 112Metrication — A speedometer used in American and British cars, showing the speed of the vehicle in miles per hour (outer, in white) and kilometres per hour (inner, in red) for Canadian[1] vehicles the locations are reversed …

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  • 113Partan bree — is a seafood speciality from north eastern Scotland, where much of the country s fishing fleet is based. Its name derives from its ingredients in a mixture of Gaelic and Scots respectively, partan being the Gaelic for crab and bree a Doric term… …

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  • 114Mobile operating system — A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance similar in principle to an operating system such as… …

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  • 115Nipperkin — The nipperkin is a unit of measurement of volume, equal to one half of a quarter gill, one eighth of a gill, or one thirty second of an English pint. In other estimations, one nip (an abbreviation that originated in 1796) is either one third of a …

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  • 116measure — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 official action to deal with a problem ADJECTIVE ▪ appropriate, effective, necessary, practical ▪ We urge you to adopt all necessary measures to guarantee people s safety. ▪ key …

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  • 117Glasgow —    GLASGOW, a city, the seat of a university, and a sea port, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the Lower ward of the county of Lanark, and situated in longitude 4° 15 51 (W.), and latitude 55° 52 10 (N.), 23 miles (E. by S.) from Greenock …

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  • 118Quartern — Quar tern, n. [OE. quarteroun, quartron, F. quarteron, the fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See {Quarter}, and cf. {Quarteron}, {Quadroon}.] 1. A quarter.… …

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  • 119quartern loaf — Quartern Quar tern, n. [OE. quarteroun, quartron, F. quarteron, the fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See {Quarter}, and cf. {Quarteron}, {Quadroon}.] 1. A quarter.… …

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  • 120Quart — The quart [The term comes from the Latin (meaning one quarter) via the French . However, although the French word quart has the same root, it frequently means something entirely different. In Canadian French in particular, the quart is called… …

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