Birkenhead

[ bur-kuhn-hed ]

noun

1. a seaport in Merseyside metropolitan county, in W England, on the Mersey River opposite Liverpool.

Birkenhead

¹

/ ˌbɜːkənˈhɛd /

noun

1. a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop: 83 729 (2001)

Birkenhead

²

/ ˈbɜːkənˌhɛd /

noun

1. BirkenheadFrederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of18721930MBritishPOLITICS: statesmanLAW: lawyerPOLITICS: orator Frederick Edwin Smith , 1st Earl of, known as F. E. Smith . 1872–1930, British Conservative statesman, lawyer, and orator

Example Sentences

When fifteen he became voluntary organist and choir-master to the Birkenhead School Chapel.

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The man in custody has been identified as the result of the efforts of the Birkenhead detective stag.

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At Birkenhead he made some accurate measurements of the electrical properties of materials used in submarine cables.

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He had a small property of about four hundred acres, on the marches, as they say, or boarders of the Earl of Birkenhead's lands.

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With us this insect has a very limited range, being only found at New Brighton, near Birkenhead, where it is most abundant.

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