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Definition: Tewkesbury |
TewkesburyNoun1. The final battle of the War of the Roses in 1471 in which Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Tewkesbury" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Synonym: TewkesburySynonym: battle of Tewkesbury (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The town features many notable Tudor buildings, and was the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. It also has a fine Norman abbey, originally a monastery, which was saved from dissolution by King Henry VIII after being bought by the townspeople for their parish church. Tewkesbury also lays claim to Gloucestershire's oldest public house, the Black Bear. Another notable building is the Royal Hop Pole Hotel, mentioned in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers. The historic Abbey Cottages, over 500 years old, were rescued from dereliction in the 1970s. One houses the town museum, the others are residential homes.
Historically, Tewkesbury is a market town, serving the local rural area. It underwent some expansion in the period following World War Two, and today has a small but significant high technology industry. Tewkesbury has also been a centre for flour milling for many centuries, and the Abbey Mill still stands. Flour is still milled at a more modern factory a short way upriver. The town also hosts a large Army supply depot at nearby Ashchurch. The town suffered from some decline in the early 1990s, with many local shops and businesses closing.
It is served by the M5 motorway and the A38 trunk road.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tewkesbury."
Crosswords: Tewkesbury |
| English words defined with "Tewkesbury": battle of Tewkesbury ♦ Edward IV. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Tewkesbury": Jews' Sabbath. (references) |
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| "Tewkesbury" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tewkesbury" is used about 177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 177 | 23,322 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Tewkesbury": battle of Tewkesbury. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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tewkesbury | 17 |
battle tewkesbury | 3 |
severn tewkesbury | 2 |
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"Tewkesbury" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dewesbury. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-k-r-s-t-u-w-y" | |
-3 letters: bestrew, keyster, rebukes, turkeys, tuyeres, webster. | |
-4 letters: berets, breeks, brutes, burets, burkes, busker, buster, buyers, kersey, keyset, rebuke, rebuts, rebuys, rekeys, retuse, rewets, skewer, streek, surety, tubers, turkey, tusker, tuyere, tuyers, twyers, webers, wester, wryest, yester. | |
-5 letters: beers, beery, beets, beret, beset, brees, brews, brusk, brute, buret, burke, burse, burst, busty, butes, buyer, byres, bytes, esker, ester, ewers, eyers, eyres, keets, kerbs, kytes, rebus, rebut, rebuy, reeks, reeky, reest, rekey, reset, resew, reuse, rewet, rubes, rusty, rykes, sewer, skeet, steek, steer, stere, strew, suber, suety, sweer, sweet, terse, trees, treks, trews, treys, trues, tuber, tubes, turks, tuyer, twyer, tyees, tyers, tykes, tyres, weber, weeks, weest, weets, wrest, wurst, wytes, yerks, yeuks, yurts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 77 6B 65 73 62 75 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .--. -.- . ... -... ..- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01110111 01101011 01100101 01110011 01100010 01110101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e w k e s b u r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0077 006B 0065 0073 0062 0075 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718977718568878491 |
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