All 3 Uses of
parish
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Medical Officer for the parishes of Grimpen, Thorsley, and High Barrow.†
Chpt 1 *
- A devil with merely local powers like a parish vestry would be too inconceivable a thing.†
Chpt 3
- Sometimes he will shut up a right of way and defy the parish to make him open it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county