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shiring

shiring is the present participle and gerund of shire.

Meaning of shire

Verb

shire (third-person singular simple present shires, present participle shiring, simple past and past participle shired)

  1. (transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.
    • County Longford was shired in 1586.

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Questions about shiring

What is shiring the present participle and gerund of?
Shiring is the present participle and gerund of shire.

Words near shiring in the dictionary

  1. Shireys
  2. Shirgah
  3. Shirime
  4. Shirin
  5. shirinbaf
  6. shiring
  7. shiritori
  8. shirk
  9. shirked
  10. shirker
  11. shirkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shiring (page history and authors); shire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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