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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Township

/toun'-shĭp/ · Town·ship · IPA /ˈtaʊnʃɪp/
01 n. The district or territory of a town.
  1. 1.
    The district or territory of a town.
  2. 2.
    In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
  3. 3.
    In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.