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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A peninsula between the River Dee and River Mersey in England. often, with-definite-article
2. 2
   A metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

Etymology

From the Old English Wirhealh, from wir (“myrtle”) and healh (“corner”), referring to the bog myrtle once found there.

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