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GORSE
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English : habitational name, apparently from a lost or unidentified places called Bramwell (named in Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’). However, it may well be a variant of Bramhall.
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Beacon on the Hill; Gorse-covered Hill
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Beacon Hill; Sword; Broom Covered Hill; Gorse Hill; Similar to Brandon
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Beacon on the Hill; Gorse-covered Hill
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English (mainly Lancashire)
English (mainly Lancashire) : topographic name from Old English gors(t) ‘gorse’, or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word.Slovenian (Gorše) : shortened form of the personal name Gregor, Latin Gregorius.Slovenian (Gorše) : topographic name from a derivative of gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill planted with vines’, ‘wood in a hill country’ (see Gornik).
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English : habitational name from any of various places called Broom(e) or Brome, from Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’. There are such places in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, and elsewhere.
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English American
Beacon on the hill' or 'gorse-covered hill.
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English American
Beacon on the hill' or 'gorse-covered hill.
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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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Bramble; Raven; Father of Many; He who is High is Father; Irish Form of Abraham; A Thicket of Wild Gorse; Abbreviation of Abraham and Abram
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English (chiefly Devon)
English (chiefly Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived on a piece of land that was thickly grown with gorse, from Old English fyrse ‘gorse’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Furze in Devon and Cornwall.
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Celtic Welsh
From Arbeth.
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English (North Midlands)
English (North Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places (in Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire, and elsewhere) named Bramley, from Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English American
Beacon on the hill' or 'gorse-covered hill.
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English (Northumberland)
English (Northumberland) : variant of Brace.North German (also Bräss) : nickname from Middle Low German brÄs ‘noise’, ‘pomp’, a related form of brÄsch (see Braasch).German : topographic name from Brass ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, a common name element in the Lower Rhine and Ruhr.
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Beacon Hill; Sword; Broom Covered Hill; Gorse Hill
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Broom Hill; Gorse Hill
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places called Brandon, in County Durham, Northumbria, Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + dÅ«n ‘hill’. One in Lincolnshire, however, may be named with the Brant river, on which it stands; Ekwall derives the river name from Old English brant ‘steep’, presumably with reference to its steep banks.Irish (Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Breandáin ‘son of Breandán’.French : from the Old French oblique case of the personal name Brand, of Germanic origin (see Brand 1).
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English : habitational name from any of the places named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + feld ‘open country’, for example Broomfield in Essex, Kent, and Somerset, or Bromfield in Cumberland and Shropshire.
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English : habitational name from a place called Broomhall, most probably the one in Cheshire, which takes its name from Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’.
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Furze. See Furze.
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Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
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A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
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Gorse; furze. See Furze.
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Gorse.
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Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.