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endship

endship noun: a village, or part of a village or parish, in England.

Noun

endship (plural endships)

  1. (historical, obsolete) A village, or part of a village or parish, in England.
    • February 20, 1647, David Greenman and his brother Edward sold to John Greene, husbandman, of Newport, twenty-two acres of land near the endship or village called Greenend, bounded on the southwest side by the road leading from Newport to Portsmouth.1647, Collections, volumes 11-13, published 1918, page 73
    • Twickenham hath two villages or endships belonging to it, which are confidered as a part of its parish.1797, Edward Ironside, The History and Antiquities of Twickenham: Being the First Part of Parochial Collections for the County of Middlesex; Begun in 1780, page 109

Examples of endship in a sentence

  • Whitton Dene was what was known as an endship, that is it was a small suburb or hamlet joined to Whitton, but with its own little community.1983, Arthur Palmer, A History of Whitton, page 4:
  • It was split between the two townships or endships of Shenley Church End, 673 ha (1662 acres) and Shenley Brook End, 671 ha (1659 acres).1993, R. A. Croft, Dennis C. Mynard, The Changing Landscape of Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes:
  • The village emerged from a number of “endships” and the form of the village can be ascribed to "frontage" development along the roads linking these “endships”.2013 October 11, Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden, Reconstituting Rurality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 106:

Forms of endship

pluralendships

Questions about endship

What does endship mean?
Endship means a village, or part of a village or parish, in England.
How do you use endship in a sentence?
Whitton Dene was what was known as an endship, that is it was a small suburb or hamlet joined to Whitton, but with its own little community.
What part of speech is endship?
Endship is a noun.
What is the plural of endship?
The plural of endship is endships.

Words near endship in the dictionary

  1. endsay
  2. endscraper
  3. endscrapers
  4. endsheet
  5. endsheets
  6. endship
  7. endships
  8. endslate
  9. endslates
  10. Endsley
  11. Endsleys

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