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STRETCH
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in the parish of Wigan (now in Greater Manchester), so called from Old English mearc ‘boundary’ + lanu ‘lane’.English (Lancashire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of border or boundary land (see Mark) or a status name for someone who held land with an annual value of one mark.
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English
English : topographic name from Old English lang ‘long’ + feld ‘stretch of open country’, or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Langfield in Kent.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the dozen places in England called Anstey or Ansty, from Old English Änstiga, a compound of Än ‘one’ + stÄ«g ‘path’, denoting a short stretch of road forking at both ends. The surname is found principally in Somerset and the West Country.
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English
English : variant of Rochford.English : variant of Rackford, a habitational name from Rackenford in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Racheneforda, which Mills interprets as ‘ford suitable for riding, by a stretch of river’.
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Biblical
Stretching.
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Muslim
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
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Indian
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
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Indian
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
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English
English : from an agent derivative of Old English dr̄gean ‘to dry’; possibly an occupational name for a drier of cloth. In the Middle Ages, after cloth had been dyed and fulled, it was stretched out in tenterfields to dry.Altered spelling of German Dreier or Dreyer.
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Greek
Stretcher.
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Hawaiian
A Maui demigod who could take the form of a rope and stretch from Molokai to Hawaii.
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English
English : occupational name for the servant of a man called Wa(l)ter (see Water 1).English and Dutch : occupational name for a boatman or a water carrier, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water (see Water 2).Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wasserman(n), an occupational name for a water-carrier. Compare 2 above.Robert Waterman emigrated from England to Marshfield, MA, in 1636.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Crewe in Cheshire, named with Old Welsh criu ‘weir’. This denoted a wickerwork fence that was stretched across a river to catch fish.
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Indian, Sanskrit
Stretches out
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English
English : variant of Walter, representing the normal medieval pronunciation of the name.English and German (Rhineland) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water, Middle English, Low German water.Irish : adopted as an English translation of Gaelic Ó Fuartháin (see Foran), being wrongly taken as Ó Fuaruisce ‘son of cold water’.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English strech, strecche ‘strong’, ‘violent’.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Midlands)
English (chiefly Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Midlands) : topographic name for someone who lived in a house by a stretch of water or perhaps a moated house, from Middle English water ‘water’ + hous ‘house’.Richard Waterhouse, a tanner from Yorkshire, England, emigrated to Portsmouth, NH, in 1669.
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Muslim
Vast, Spacious, One who stretches, Enlarges
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : metonymic occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English tred(en) ‘to tread’ + well ‘well’. Fulling was the process by which newly woven cloth was cleaned and shrunk by the use of heat, water, and pressure (from treading) before finally being stretched and laid out to dry on tenter hooks.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a stretch of open country by a wood, or (as a later formation) someone who lived near a field by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu) + feld ‘open country’, later with the modern meaning ‘field’.Scottish : habitational name from Woodfield, a place near Annan in Dumfriesshire. A certain Roger Wodyfelde is recorded as holding land in Dumfries in 1365.
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Tamil
Dharshaneeya | தரà¯à®·à®¾à®¨à¯‡à®¯à®¾Â
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Hebrew
Promise.
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American, British, English
From the Town on the High Ground
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American, Australian, Basque, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Japanese, Latin, Swedish
Sixth Month of the Year; June; Born in June; Vital Force
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Indian
Aided by God, Victorious
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Irish
Fair birth; handsome.
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Tamil
Brahma | பà¯à®°à®¹à¯à®®à®¾
Creator of the universe
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Indian, Sanskrit
To Live Somewhere
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British, English
From the Bull Meadow; Meadow of the Sheep
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English
English : variant spelling of Broomfield.
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n.
One who, or that which, stretches.
n.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
v. i.
To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
n.
The extent to which anything may be stretched.
v. i.
To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.
v. t.
To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.
v. t.
To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.
imp. & p. p.
of Stretch
n.
Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
n.
A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
v. t.
To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
v. i.
To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
v. t.
To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
n.
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
v. i.
To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to swing; to oscillate.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stretch
n.
Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
n.
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
v. i.
To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.