Lerwick

[ lur-wik, ler-, ler-ik ]

noun

1. a city in and the administrative center of the Shetland Islands, N of Scotland.

Lerwick

/ ˈlɜːwɪk /

noun

1. a town in Shetland, administrative centre of the island authority of Shetland, on the island of Mainland: the most northerly town in the British Isles; knitwear, oil refining. Pop: 6830 (2001)

Example Sentences

From Lerwick to the Scilly Isles, the poor industrious classes were made the earliest victims.

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The steamboat landed me at Lerwick, and I completed my journey—with my boxes—next day in an open boat.

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The shipping from Lerwick sailed at dawn under protection, dispersed at dark, and reached the Norwegian coast at dawn.

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I saw the ruines of one of these houses about half-a-mile from Lerwick, where a woman was for some years kept for this reason.

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I have already made a quotation from Brand to show that it was at Lerwick as late as the latter part of the seventeenth century.

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