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enfield
/ˈɛnfild/
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What does enfield mean?
noun
- A heraldic beast with the head of a fox, the chest of a greyhound, the talons of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the hindlegs and tail of a wolf.
- An Enfield revolver, a British handgun manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield.
proper noun
- A town and London borough in Greater London.
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proper noun
- A suburban area in Hyndburn borough, Lancashire, south of Clayton-le-Moors (OS grid ref SD7530).
- A district of the town of Redditch, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0368).
- A town in County Meath, Ireland; name adapted from Innfield (after an inn in the area) after the town in England.
- A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; named for the town in England.
- A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia.
- A rural locality in Victoria, Australia.
- A suburban community in Nova Scotia, Canada; named for the town in Connecticut.
- A town in Hartford County, Connecticut; named for the town in England.
- A village in White County, Illinois.
- A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
- A submerged ghost town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts; named for early settler Robert Field.
- A town, village, and census-designated place in Grafton County, New Hampshire; named for the town in Connecticut.
- A town in Tompkins County, New York.
- A town in Halifax County, North Carolina.
- An English habitational surname from Old English.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛnfild/
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These have rendered the Enfield Small Arms Factory one of the most perfect and best regulated establishments in the kingdom.
Then I made a little nursery of Borecole and Enfield market cabbage, grubbing in wet earth with leggings and gray coat on.
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As he was going out, he met Passepartout, who asked him if it would not be well, before taking the train, to purchase some dozens of Enfield rifles and Colt’s revolvers.
The most powerful of the first council was the Earl of Hertford, the young King’s uncle, who lost no time in bringing his nephew with great state up to Enfield, and thence to the Tower.
The race that wrote the Arabian Nights, built Bagdad and Granada, and invented Algebra, sends forth men with the hunger for gold in their hearts, and Enfield muskets in their hands, to plunder and to slay.