Noun

(en noun) (Inheritance)

Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I am my father's heir and only son.

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, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir .}}

One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.

A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:And I his heir in misery alone.

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*:"I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came"

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=12, magazine=(The Economist)

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Noun

(en noun)

* 1902 , , Sessional Papers , Volume 34, Part 2, page 7,

The keirs , becks, washing machines, etc., are placed sufficiently low to allow of being fed from the water supply by gravitation, and the outlets placed just sufficiently high to reach the water line of the river a little above its normal flow.

* 1919 , Society of Dyers and Colourists, Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists , Volume 35, page 35,

Also fine clothes require longer treatment in the keir in order to secure good penetration by the chemie.

* 1975 , Owen Ashmore, The Industrial Archaeology of Stockport , page 31,

The cloth was singed to remove superfluous fluff by being passed over heated copper plates and then boiled in bleaching keirs with lime or caustic soda.