Webster's English Dictionary

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township

town.ship \'tau.n-.ship\ n 1: an ancient unit of administration in England 
   identical in area with or a  division of a parish 2a: TOWN  2b: a unit of 
   local government in some northeastern and north central state s usu. having 
   a chief administrative officer or board 2c: an unorganized subdivision of 
   the county in Maine, New Hampshire, and V ermont 2d: an electoral and 
   administrative district of the county in the southern  U.S. 3: a division 
   of territory in surveys of U.S. public land containing 36 sec tions or 36 
   square miles