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Definition of Cheviots
1. Noun. A range of hills on the border between England and Scotland.
Definition of Cheviots
1. Noun. (plural of cheviot) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cheviots
1. cheviot [n] - See also: cheviot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheviots
Literary usage of Cheviots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"... channels points clearly to the former presence of a chain of small lakes held
in the radial system of valleys of the cheviots by a barrier of ice. ..."
2. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1886)
"In the first of these great compartments, the lofty range of the cheviots, which
forms the southern The boundary and presents a steep face to the north, ..."
3. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"At that point the highway forked, one branch continuing northwards to the cheviots,
while the other made westwards over Stainmore to Carlisle. ..."
4. Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands by Lydia Howard Sigourney (1856)
"THE cheviots, which are represented in some of the ancient ballads, as green with
waving woods, seem now to be a chain of bald hills, much devoted to the ..."
5. Sheep Farming in America by Joseph Elwyn Wing (1912)
"cheviots. The Cheviot is classed as a mountain breed, of which there are a number
... The cheviots have displaced the hardier Black-faced breed in all the ..."
6. The Economy of High Wages: An Inquiry Into the Cause of High Wages and Their by Jacob Schoenhof, Thomas Francis Bayard (1892)
"6-4 cheviots. The mill which made the above goods manufactured 6-4 cheviots very
largely. These were only 35 per cent, wool and 65 per cent, shoddy in the ..."
7. The Foundations of England: Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"Having thus made himself master of Britain south of the cheviots, Agricola in
the summer of the year 80 broke into fresh ground,3 attacking the A ..."
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