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SHANNON

Volume 3 · 87 words · 1771 Edition

the largest river in Ireland, which rising in the county of Leitrim, runs southwards, dividing the provinces of Leinster and Connaught; and then turning south-west, runs through the province of Munster; and passing by the city of Limeric, afterwards falls into the western or Atlantic ocean.

SHARE of a plough, that part which cuts the ground, the extremity forwards being covered with a sharp-pointed iron, called the point of the share; and the end of the wood behind, the tail of the share. See Agriculture, p. 54.