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English
English : probably either a topographic name from Middle English whin ‘whin’, ‘gorse’ (Old Norse hvin) + wra(y) ‘nook or corner of land’ (Old Norse vrá), or a habitational name from Whinneray in Gosforth, Cumbria, which may have the same origin.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from Shute or Shewte in Devon, or possibly Shute in Wiltshire, named with Old English scīete ‘corner of land’.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from Wignal, a minor place near Holmes in the parish of Croston, so named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Wicga (see Wigley) + Old English h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘corner’, ‘recess’.
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English
English : habitational name from Mucklows Hill in Worcestershire or Muckley Corner, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. Both are named with Old English micel ‘large’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.
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English
English : possibly a habitational name from Kiddal in Barwick in Elmet, West Yorkshire, which is probably so named from the Old English personal name Cydda + Old English halh ‘nook or corner of land’. However, the surname occurs predominantly in Devon, suggesting another, unidentified source may be involved. Alternatively, it could be a variant of Kiddle, a topographic name for someone living by (or making his living from) a fish weir, Middle English kidel (Old French cuidel, quidel, a word of Breton origin).
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English : habitational name from a place in Berkshire named Bracknell from an Old English personal name Bracca (genitive -n) + halh ‘nook or corner of land’.
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English : habitational name from Chisnall Hall in Lancashire, which is named with Old English cisen ‘gravelly’ + halh ‘nook or corner of land’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various minor places in northern England named Wray, Wrea, or Wreay, from Old Norse vrá ‘nook’, ‘corner’, ‘recess’.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, West Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse þak ‘thatching’, ‘reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook’, ‘corner’.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Kelsall, from the Middle English personal name Kell + Old English halh ‘nook or corner of land’, or possibly from Kelshall in Hertfordshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Cylli + Old English hyll ‘hill’, or even Kelsale in Suffolk, named with an Old English personal name Cēl(i) or Cēol + Old English halh.
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English
English : occupational name for a hornblower or worker in horn, from an agent derivative of Old French corne ‘horn’ (see Corne).English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of hand mills, from an agent derivative of Old English cweorn ‘hand mill’ (see Corn 3).English : topographic name for someone who lived on the corner of two streets or tracks, (Middle English corner, from Old French cornier ‘angle’, ‘corner’).Americanized spelling of German Körner (see Koerner) or Swiss Korner.
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Irish
Irish : variant of Herlihy.Irish (Munster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUrthuile ‘descendant of Urthuile’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murthuile, ‘descendant of Murthuile’ (see Murley).English : habitational name from places in Berkshire and Warwickshire so named from Old English hyrne ‘corner’, ‘bend’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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South German
South German : topographic name for someone who lived on a corner (either a street corner, or the corner of a valley running around a mountain), from an altered form of Eck + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Dutch and German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agi ‘point (of a sword)’ + heri ‘army’.South German(Swabia) : occupational name for a farmer, from an agent derivative of eggen ‘to harrow’.English : variant of Edgar 1.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English hÄlig ‘holy’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’ + Old English lÄ“ah ‘clearing’.
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English
English : habitational name (reflecting the pronunciation of the place name) for someone from Finchale in Durham, named from Old English finc ‘finch’ + halh ‘nook or corner of land’.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name or topographic name from Middle English fenkel ‘fennel’. Compare Fennell.Respelling of German Finkel.
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English : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, generally from a field name denoting a triangular area, Old English gÄra (see Gore) at the corner of an open field after rectangular furlongs had been laid out.Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.U.S. President James Abram Garfield (1831–81) was preceded by at least six Garfields born in America, his immigrant ancestor having come to Massachusetts Bay with John Winthrop in 1630.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : from the medieval personal name Tebald, Tibalt (see Theobald).German : from a nickname for a simpleton, from Low German tippel ‘point’, ‘corner’, ‘tag’ (possibly a reference to the pointed shape of a fool’s cap).German : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name related to Dietrich.
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Scottish
Scottish : variant of Whan.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a corner or angle or land, from Old English hwamm ‘corner’, or a habitational name from Wham in County Durham, named with this word.
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English
English : in examples such as William de la Winche (Worcestershire 1275) evidently a topographic name, perhaps for someone who lived at a spot where boats were hauled up onto the land by means of pulleys, from Middle English winche ‘reel’, ‘roller’. However, Old English wince as an element of place names may also have meant ‘corner’ or ‘nook’, and in some cases the surname may be derived from this sense.English : in examples such as William le Wynch (Sussex 1327) it appears to be a nickname, perhaps from the lapwing, Old English (hlēap)wince.
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English
English : a habitational name from any of various place so called, such as Hudnall in Hertfordshire or Hudnalls in Gloucestershire, both named from the Old English personal name Huda (genitive Hudan) + Old English healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. This is a common name in TX.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Corner
adv.
With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
a.
Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.
n.
The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
v. t.
To drive into a corner.
a.
Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.
n.
The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
v. t.
To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
n.
A private corner.
p. a.
1 Having corners or angles.
n.
A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.
v. t.
To make triangular, or three-cornered.
a.
Without nooks and corners; guileless.
a.
Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
v. t.
To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
v. t.
To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
imp. & p. p.
of Corner
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The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
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A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
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Having four corners or angles.