Berkshire

abbreviation Berks · abbreviation Brks.

1. An inland county of England, bounded by Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Greater London and Wiltshire.

   My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.

   2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 66

2. Numerous places in the United States:
   1. A community in Sandy Hook, Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
   2. A town in Tioga County, New York.
   3. An unincorporated community and township in Delaware County, Ohio.
   4. A town in Franklin County, Vermont.

plural Berkshires

1. A breed of pig from Berkshire county.First known use mid 1700s
2. rail transportA steam locomotive of the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement.

   Erie, always an interesting road to watch, fortified itself in the late '20's with the largest roster of Berkshires in the land, and these engines were easily able to sustain the road until dieselization …

   1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.