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Definition of township

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Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..

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Range :: Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart..

Deputy :: Deputy (n.) One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc..

Soc :: Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

Deme :: Deme (n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township..

Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..

Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe..

Section :: Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws..

Township :: Township (n.) The district or territory of a town.

Township :: Township (n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county..

Intercommon :: Intercommon (v. t.) To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc..

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country..

Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..

Chazy Epoch :: Chazy epoch () An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology..