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British, English
Spear-man
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Newcastle and Durham)
English (mainly Newcastle and Durham) : of uncertain origin, probably a derivative of northern Middle English stang ‘pole’ (of Old Norse origin). Possible meanings include a topographic name for someone who lived by a pole or stake (compare Stakes) or an occupational name for someone armed with one. Alternatively, it may be a nickname for someone who had ‘ridden the stang’, i.e. been carried on a pole through the streets as an object of derision, in punishment for some misdemeanor. However, this custom is of uncertain antiquity.Orcadian : probably a habitational name from a minor place called Stanagar in the parish of Stromness.German : occupational name for a maker of shafts for spears and the like, from an agent derivative of Middle High German stange ‘pole’, ‘shaft’.
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Welsh
Welsh : Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhiddid ‘son of Rhiddid’, a personal name of unexplained etymology.Welsh : Anglicized form of ap Redith ‘son of Redith’, a short form of Meredith; the short form occurs only in this Anglicized spelling.Welsh : from the personal name Predyr, Peredur (perhaps from Old Welsh peri ‘spears’ + dur ‘hard’, ‘steel’), which was borne, in Arthurian legend, by one of the knights of the Round Table.Welsh : occupational name, from Welsh prydydd ‘bard’.English : habitational name from Priddy in Somerset, named probably with Celtic words meaning ‘earth house’.
Male
English
French surname transferred to English forename use, DEVEREUX means "from Evreux." Evreux is a commune of Normandy, France which got its name from the Eburovices, the name of a gallic tribe, meaning "those which overcome by the yew."Â Yew wood was used to make weapons: bows, arrows, spears, etc.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Bearer of Spears
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Spear.
Boy/Male
English American
From the triangular field. From an Old English surname and place name, meaning 'field of spears'.
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English
English : variant of Matter.English : probably a metonymic occupational name for a mattress maker or seller, from Middle English, Old French materas, or less likely for a maker of crossbow bolts, spears, and lances, from the Middle English homonym materas.Dutch : variant of Matter 2.
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English
English : from Middle English spere ‘spear’, hence a nickname for a tall, thin person, or else for a skilled user of the hunting spear. In part it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spears
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n.
An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
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A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
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An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
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A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
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The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears.