Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of southeast England near the North Sea. It was an important pre-Roman city and the site of the first Roman colony in Britain.
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- proper noun A town in
Essex ,England (the oldest town in England).
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Examples
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COLCHESTER - A bicycle ferry that carries cyclists across an opening in a Lake Champlain causeway between the Vermont communities of Colchester and South Hero hopes to double the days it runs this summer.
RutlandHerald.com 2010
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COLCHESTER - The owner of a building housing PACE, a health care center for elderly patients on Vermont 15 in Colchester, does not pay property taxes to the town.
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COLCHESTER - A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter is helping with the search for a Burlington man believed to have disappeared on Lake Champlain off Colchester early Monday morning.
RutlandHerald.com 2009
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Also, the Military ‘Glasshouse’ prison in Colchester is run very strictly, and has a very very small re-offending rate.
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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Thom said they lived in Colchester, which is a big hour or so east-northeast of London.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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Thom said they lived in Colchester, which is a big hour or so east-northeast of London.
Archive 2005-02-01 Michael Evans 2005
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Thom said they lived in Colchester, which is a big hour or so east-northeast of London.
Archive 2005-01-30 Michael Evans 2005
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Crooksea Water; but the chief place where the said oysters are now had is from Wyvenhoe and the shores adjacent, whither they are brought by the fishermen, who take them at the mouth of that they call Colchester water and about the sand they call the Spits, and carry them up to Wyvenhoe, where they are laid in beds or pits on the shore to feed, as they call it; and then being barrelled up and carried to Colchester, which is but three miles off, they are sent to London by land, and are from thence called Colchester oysters.
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Crooksea Water; but the chief place where the said oysters are now had is from Wyvenhoe and the shores adjacent, whither they are brought by the fishermen, who take them at the mouth of that they call Colchester water and about the sand they call the Spits, and carry them up to Wyvenhoe, where they are laid in beds or pits on the shore to feed, as they call it; and then being barrelled up and carried to Colchester, which is but three miles off, they are sent to London by land, and are from thence called Colchester oysters.
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Crooksea Water; but the chief place where the said oysters are now had is from Wyvenhoe and the shores adjacent, whither they are brought by the fishermen, who take them at the mouth of that they call Colchester water and about the sand they call the Spits, and carry them up to Wyvenhoe, where they are laid in beds or pits on the shore to feed, as they call it; and then being barrelled up and carried to Colchester, which is but three miles off, they are sent to London by land, and are from thence called Colchester oysters.
Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Daniel Defoe 1696
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