wansdyke
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Medieval earthworks in the West Country of England.
name
A former local government district in the County of Avon, England, formed in 1974 and merged into Bath and North East Somerset in 1996 when the county was abolished. It was named after the earthwork.
Example Sentences
- "With Arthur it was clearly the Falklands factor writ large. Actions such as organizing and building the Wansdyke or Cadbury 11 (the refortification) would have strengthened the authority and extended the power of whichever king was the organizer."
Subject
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