Picton
Proper noun
Meaning
(countable) A habitational surname from Old English.
(uncountable) A placename:
A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in Hambleton district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4107).
A hamlet in Mickle Trafford parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4371).
A former civil parish of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, now part of Mickle Trafford parish.
A ward of Liverpool, Merseyside, Lancashire, England.
A town and ferry port in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand.
An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
In a release on Tuesday, Lord Mayor Betty Disero asked drivers to relocate their passenger pickups to Byron and King streets instead of from their traditional spot in front of the Prince of Wales Hotel at King and Picton.
Her guest list included all the highest nobility and military commanders of the city: Prince William of Orange-Nassau; Frederick, Duke of Brunswick; Lt. Gen. Sir Thomas Picton; right down to 18-year-old Lord James Hay, heir to the Earl of Erroll.
Picton Mahoney Asset Management purchased a new stake in shares of NRG Energy during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $3,651,000.
The Beagle conflict began to brew in the 1960s, when Argentina began to claim that the Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands in the Beagle Channel were rightfully hers.
The 1834 Collard & Collard ‘table’ grand came from the historic Tahmoor House near Picton, a building that was once called the Tahmoor Inn and which saw the likes of Hume and Hovell stay there on their expeditions south.