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GLOUCESTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Gloucester" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Gloucester" is a part of...):
Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
“I wished to ask you, Jim Harrison, whether you would undertake to be my champion in the fight against Crab Wilson of Gloucester?” said my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, Charlie, whom have we upon the list who can beat Crab Wilson, of Gloucester?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He has a fancy to this new Gloucester man, Crab Wilson, and I’m to find a man to beat him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then, as half the crowd strained to the left and half to the right to avoid the pressure from behind, the vast mass was suddenly reft in twain, and through the gap surged the rough fellows from behind, all armed with loaded sticks and yelling for Fair play and Gloucester!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My man, Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, having never yet fought a prize battle, is prepared to meet, upon May the 18th of this year, any man of any weight who may be selected by Sir Charles Tregellis.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
SO Boy Jim went down to the George, at Crawley, under the charge of Jim Belcher and Champion Harrison, to train for his great fight with Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, whilst every club and bar parlour of London rang with the account of how he had appeared at a supper of Corinthians, and beaten the formidable Joe Berks in four rounds.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, said a loud, consequential man from immediately behind me, speaking with a broad western burr, vrom what I’ve zeen of this young Gloucester lad, I doan’t think Harrison could have stood bevore him for ten rounds when he vas in his prime.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
