What is the name meaning of COTTON. Phrases containing COTTON
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Hindu, Indian
Cotton
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English : habitational name from any of numerous places named from Old English cotum (dative plural of cot) ‘at the cottages or huts’ (or sometimes possibly from a Middle English plural, coten). Examples include Coton (Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire), Cottam (East Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire), and Cotham (Nottinghamshire).French : from a diminutive of Old French cot(t)e ‘coat (of mail)’ (see Cott).John Cotton (1584–1652) was a noted Puritan preacher, who landed at Boston, MA, from London in 1633 and became leader of the Congregationalists in America.
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English (mainly Lancashire) : probably a variant of Twiss, or possibly in a few cases from Twist, a minor place in Devon, or Twist Wood in Brede, Sussex, both named from Old English twist, Middle English twist ‘something twisted or forked’.English (mainly Lancashire) : possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone in the cotton-spinning industry, whose responsibility was to combine threads into a strong cord, a sense of twist recorded from the 16th century.
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Silk cotton tree
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English (chiefly Manchester)
English (chiefly Manchester) : occupational name for someone whose job was to steep cotton or linen in lye (a strong alkali) to cleanse it, from an agent derivative of Middle English bouken ‘to wash’ (from Middle Dutch būken).
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English (Merseyside)
English (Merseyside) : variant of Cotton.
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English : occupational name for a mower or reaper of grass or hay, Old English mǣðere. Compare Mead, Mower. Hay was formerly of great importance, not only as feed for animals in winter but also for bedding.English : in southern Lancashire, where it has long been a common surname, it is probably a relatively late development of Madder (see Mader).English : The prominent Mather family of New England were established in America by Richard Mather (1596–1669) in 1635. He was a Puritan clergyman from a well-established family of Lowton, Lancashire, England. After he emigrated, he was in great demand as a preacher, finally settling in Dorchester, MA. His son Increase Mather (1639–1723) was a diplomat and president of Harvard. He married his step-sister Maria Cotton, herself the daughter of an eminent Puritan divine, John Cotton. Their son Cotton Mather (1663–1728) bore both family names. The latter was a minister who is remembered for his part in witchcraft trials, but he was also a man of science and a fellow of the Royal Society in London.
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Cotton ginner
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English (mainly southeastern)
English (mainly southeastern) : variant of Hook (in the occupational or topographic and habitational senses), with the addition of the agent suffix -er.Congregational clergyman Thomas Hooker (1586?–1647) sailed from England with John Cotton and Samuel Stone and arrived in Boston in 1633. He led the 1635 migration of most of his congregation to Hartford in the Connecticut Valley. Thomas is the earliest known entrant, but the name Hooker is common and was also introduced independently by others during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : variant of Cotton.
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Muslim
Cotton
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Tamil
A silk cotton tree
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Indian
Soft Delicate; Cotton Ball
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Indian
Cotton ginner
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English
English : variant spelling of Cotton.Possibly an altered spelling of German Kotten, a habitational name from any of several places so named in Rhineland, Westphalia, Silesia, etc., or an Americanized shortened form of composite German surnames such as Kottenhagen, Kottenhoff, Kottenkamp (see Koth).
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Native American
Cottonwood.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : variant of Cotton.
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Native American Spanish
Grove of cottonwood.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, so called from the Old English tribal name Spaldingas ‘people of the district called Spald’. The district name probably means ‘ditches’, referring to drainage channels in the fenland.The surname was taken to Scotland in the 13th century by Radulphus de Spalding. His descendants prospered, and the name is still common in Scotland. Early American Spaldings include Thomas Spalding, born in Frederica, GA, in 1774, who introduced sea-island cotton in GA, and the physician Lyman Spalding, born in Cornish, NH, in 1775, who founded U.S. Pharmacopoeia.
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A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
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An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
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Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
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A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
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A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
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A kind of velvet having cotton back.
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The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
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A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
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A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
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To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
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To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
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Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
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The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
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Cloth made of cotton.
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Resembling cotton.
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Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
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To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
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Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
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A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
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A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.