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Greek
Greek : variant spelling of Caras.English : habitational name from any of several places called Carr House or Carrhouse (examples of which are found in northern counties including Cheshire and Yorkshire), from Middle English kerr ‘wet ground’ or ‘brushwood’ (Old Norse with kjarr; see Kerr) + h(o)us ‘house’ (Old English hūs).
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English
English : topographic name from Old Norse storð ‘brushwood’ or ‘young plantation’. There is a place so named in Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), as well as a High Storrs in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, both named from this word.
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English
English : topographic name from Old English hrÄ«s ‘brushwood’, or a habitational name from Rise in East Yorkshire, named with this word.Norwegian : habitational name from any of over twenty farmsteads named Rise, from Old Norse hrÃs ‘brushwood’. The name also occurs in Sweden and Denmark.
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English
English : habitational name, probably from Long Riston in East Yorkshire, named from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + tūn ‘farmstead’.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. It may be a nickname for someone thought to resemble a brush (Middle English brusche, from Old French brosse), or a metonymic occupational name for a brush maker. It could also be from a related word, brusche ‘cut wood’, ‘branches lopped off trees’ (Old French brousse), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a forester or woodcutter, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a scrubby area of country, from Old French broce ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’ (Late Latin bruscia).Respelling of German Brusch or Brüsch, a topographic name from the field name Brüsch (Middle High German brüsch ‘heather’, ‘broom’ or ‘brush’).
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and East Yorkshire, so named from Old Norse hrÃs ‘brushwood’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English scrogge ‘brushwood’.Scottish : habitational name from Scrogges in Peeblesshire.
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English
English : unexplained.
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English
English : nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English re(a)d ‘red’.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, from an unattested Old English rīed, r̄d ‘woodland clearing’.English : Read in Lancashire, the name of which is a contracted form of Old English rǣghēafod, from rǣge ‘female roe deer’, ‘she-goat’ + hēafod ‘head(land)’; Rede in Suffolk, so called from Old English hrēod ‘reeds’; or Reed in Hertfordshire, so called from an Old English ryhð ‘brushwood’.English : A family called Read were established in America in the early 18th century by John Read, who was born in Dublin, sixth in descent from Sir Thomas Read of Berkshire, England. His son, George Read (1733–98), was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and as a lawyer helped frame the Constitution.
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Dutch and German
Dutch and German : occupational name for a stonemason or someone who used or made pickaxes or chisel, from bicke ‘pickaxe’, ‘chisel’ + the agent suffix -er. Compare Bick.English : occupational name for a beekeeper, Middle English biker (from Old English bīcere). Bees were important in medieval England because their honey provided the only means of sweetening food (sugar being a more recent importation); honey was also used in preserving.English : habitational name from Bicker in Lincolnshire or Byker in Tyne and Wear, both named with the Old English preposition bī ‘by’, ‘beside’ + Old Norse kjarr ‘wet ground’, ‘brushwood’.Cars Bicker was a wealthy merchant and one of the commissioners to New Netherland under the West India Company’s 1621 charter.
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English (southern)
English (southern) : habitational name from places in Gloucestershire and Middlesex, so named from Old English strÅd ‘marshy ground overgrown with brushwood’. Strood in Kent is named with the same word, and some examples of the surname are no doubt derived from this term in independent use.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’ (compare McCoy). In some cases, especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon and Worcestershire, so called from the plural of Middle English hay ‘enclosure’ (see Hay 1), or a topographic name from the same word.English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Dorset, Greater London (formerly in Kent and Middlesex), and Worcestershire, so called from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’, or a topographic name from the same word.English : patronymic from Hay 3.French : variant (plural) of Haye 3.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from Yiddish name Khaye ‘life’ + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), born in Delaware, OH, was descended from old New England families on both sides. Through the paternal line he was descended from George Hayes, who emigrated from Scotland in 1680 and settled in Windsor, CT.
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English
English : habitational name from Risley in Derbyshire and Lancashire or Riseley in Bedfordshire and Berkshire, all so named from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + lēah ‘clearing’.
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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 : habitational name from Shrewsbury in Shropshire, which is named from an ancient district name derived from Old English scrobb ‘scrub’, ‘brushwood’, + Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified place’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, northern Middle English kerr (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed’, ‘left-handed’.Irish : see Carr.This surname has also absorbed examples of German Kehr.
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English
English : topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood’, ‘thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example in Cumbria, Lancashire, and Staffordshire.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the various places so named, for example in Norfolk, North Yorkshire, and East Yorkshire. The two villages of this name in Norfolk are recorded in Domesday Book as Ristuna, and are from Old English hrÄ«s ‘brushwood’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; Ruston Parva in East Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Roreston, is named from the genitive case of the Old Norse byname Hrór meaning ‘vigorous’ + Old English tÅ«n. Ruston in North Yorkshire is Rostune in Domesday Book, apparently from Old English hrÅst ‘roost’, ‘roof’ + tÅ«n, referring to a building with an unusual roof.
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English
English : habitational name from Heston, Middlesex, named with Old English hǣs ‘brushwood’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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From the brushwood farm.
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Tamil
Excellent
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Indian, Sanskrit
Place
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Native American
Native American Cheyenne name HEVOVITASTAMIUTSTO means "whirlwind."
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Biblical
Smoke.
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
One with Godly Wisdom
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English
English : perhaps a variant of Skoyles, a Norfolk name of unexplained etymology.
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Portuguese
Portuguese form of Latin Theodosius, TEODÓSIO means "god-giving."
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English French
Servant of the priory.
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Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
God; Short Form of Bhavesh or Bhavik
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Norse Anglo Saxon Scandinavian
From Denmark.
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v. t.
To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
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Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
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Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.
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An American plant (Erechthites hiercifolia), very troublesome in spots where brushwood has been burned.
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A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
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A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
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A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
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Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
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To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
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Small branches of trees cut off.
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A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
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A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
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Brushwood; coppice.