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English : from the Middle English personal name Hann + the hypocoristic suffix -cok, which was commonly added to personal names (see Cocke).Dutch : from Middle Dutch hanecoc ‘winkle’, ‘periwinkle’ (a type of shellfish), probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered and sold shellfish.Thomas Hancock, the uncle of Declaration of Independence signatory John Hancock (1736/7–93), was among the foremost of 18th-century American businessmen. He was a descendant of Nathaniel Hancock, who was known to have been in Cambridge, MA, as early as 1634. Born in Braintree, MA, John Hancock was president of the Second Continental Congress and the first governor of the state of MA.
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English : habitational name from Winkfield, a place in Berkshire named from an unattested Old English personal name Wineca + Old English feld ‘open country’.
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English : variant of Winkle.Americanized spelling of German Winkels.
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English : habitational name, perhaps from Winkleigh in Devon, named with an unattested Old English personal name Wineca + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. However, the modern surname occurs chiefly in South Yorkshire and Lancashire, which suggests that another, unidentified source may be involved.Americanized form of German Winkele.
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Respelling of German and Jewish Winkel.English
Respelling of German and Jewish Winkel.English : probably a nickname for a small man, from winkle, a kind of small shellfish.
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English (mainly Yorkshire) : probably a variant of Wink.
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English : variant of Winch.
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v. t.
To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
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of Wink
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A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.
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The time of a wink; a twinkling.
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of Wink
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The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.
adv.
In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.
v. t.
To cause (the eyes) to wink.
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One who winks.
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A wink; a twinkling.
v. i.
To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
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The time of a wink; a moment; an instant.
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A horse's blinder; a blinker.
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A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
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A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
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One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.
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Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).
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Any periwinkle.
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To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
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A winkle.