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BALL
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Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
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Spanish
Spanish : of uncertain origin. Theoretically it could be a variant of vallón, from valle ‘valley’, but neither form is attested as a vocabulary word or as a place name element. Alternatively, it could be a Castilian spelling of Catalan Batlló, Balló, nicknames from diminutives of batlle ‘dancing’.English : variant spelling of Balon.
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Dutch
Dutch : from a reduced form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element bald (see Bald).English : variant spelling of Ball 1.Danish : habitational name from a farmstead named Balle, meaning ‘slope’, ‘hill’.Catalan : respelling of Batlle, status name for a steward or official, from Catalan batlle.
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English
English : variant of Ball 2, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.German : variant of the Germanic personal name Balther (from bald ‘bold’, ‘strong’).
Male
English
From an Old English derogatory name for a bald-headed person; it became a surname, then transferred to forename; derived from Middle English balled, BALLARD means "rounded like a ball," hence "bald-headed."
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Beloved, Dear
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English
Irish surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic Baile an Doire, BALLINDERRY means "town of the oak wood."
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English (northeastern)
English (northeastern) : from Middle English snow ‘snow’ + ball. The second element may refer to a streak or lock of hair, or it may mean a bald patch. The surname therefore originated as a nickname for someone with a patch of white hair or a pale bald patch, amid dark hair.
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English
English : nickname for a short, fat person, from Middle English bal(le) ‘ball’ (Old English ball, Old Norse b{o,}llr).English : topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le), used in this sense.English : from the Old Norse personal name Balle, derived either from ballr ‘dangerous’ or b{o,}llr ‘ball’.South German : from Middle High German bal ‘ball’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a juggler, or a habitational name from a place so named in the Rhine area.Dutch and German : short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element bald (see Bald).William Ball (1616–80) emigrated from Suffolk, England, to VA about 1650 and was one of the founders of Millenbeck on the Rappahannock.
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English
English : habitational name from the Clee Hills in Shropshire or the nearby village of Clee St. Margaret. The hills are probably named with Old English cleo ‘rounded’, ‘ball-shaped’.Possibly an altered form of Irish or Scottish McClay.Variant spelling of German Klee.
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Catalan
Catalan : occupational name for a maker of crossbows or a soldier armed with a crossbow, from Catalan ballester ‘crossbowman’ or ‘crossbow maker’, an agent derivative of ballesta ‘crossbow’ (Latin ballista ‘(military) catapult’).English and German : occupational name, cognate with 1, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French baleste ‘crossbow’.
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English
English : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. It has been suggested that it might be an altered form of Scottish Ballantine, but the distribution and variants (including Blanding) make it more probable that it is an altered form of a French original.
Male
English
Irish surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic Béal an Ãtha Móir, BALLINAMORE means "mouth of the big ford."Â
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Irish
Irish : in part at least, probably a further Anglicization of the Irish surname Mountcashell, itself an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolchaisil (see Cashel 2), which was associated with Ballymulcashell in County Clare. Woulfe says that a registrar in Munster changed the name to Mountcashel c. 1840.English : in England, this name is common in Lincolnshire. While this may well be the result of migration from Ireland, the possibility of a habitational name from an unidentified place should not be ruled out.
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English
English : patronymic form of the Old Norse personal name Balle (see Ball 3).
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : occupational name for a poet, minstrel, or balladeer, from an agent derivative of Middle English rime(n) ‘to compose or recite verses’ (Old French rimer).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Riemer.
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Breacáin ‘descendant of Breacán’, a personal name from a diminutive of breac ‘speckled’, ‘spotted’, which was borne by a 6th-century saint who lived at Ballyconnel, County Cavan, and was famous as a healer; St. Bricin’s Military Hospital, Dublin is named in his honor.English : topographic name from Middle English braken ‘bracken’ (from Old English bræcen or Old Norse brakni), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Bracken in East Yorkshire or Bracon Ash in Norfolk.German : especially in the north, probably a topographic name from Middle Low German brake ‘brushwood’, ‘fallow land’, ‘copse’, an element of many field and place names.
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English
English : variant spelling of Ballinger (see Beringer).
Boy/Male
Hindu
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English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : topographic name for someone who lived by a tidal creek or an inlet of the sea, Old English pyll, or a habitational name from Pylle in Somerset, which was named with this word.English (Devon and Cornwall) : descriptive nickname for a small, rotund person, from Middle English, Old French pil(l)e ‘ball’.
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n.
A room for balls or dancing.
v. i.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
imp. & p. p.
of Ballot
a.
Pertaining to electro-ballistics.
n.
Voting by ballot.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ballot
n.
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
n.
Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
n.
An officer who has charge of a ballot box.
n.
The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
n.
To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
a.
Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
v. i.
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
n.
The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
n.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
n.
One who votes by ballot.
v. t.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
a.
Swelled out like a balloon.
n.
One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.