What is the name meaning of HADLEY. Phrases containing HADLEY
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HADLEY
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English American
Field of heather. Surname. The name of Hemingway's first wife.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, English, Jamaican
From the Heather Covered Meadow; From Heather's Field
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : habitational name from either of two places named Hadley, in Worcestershire and Shropshire, or from either of two places named Hadleigh, in Essex and Suffolk. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + lēah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’; the other three are from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + lēah.
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English : unexplained; possibly a variant of Fenton.John Vinton was a resident of Lynn, MA, as early as 1648. He had numerous prominent descendants, including Samuel Finley Vinton, who was born in South Hadley, MA, in 1792, and became on OH congressman.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, English, Jamaican
From the Heather Covered Meadow; Heather Meadow; From Heather's Field
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Heath Covered Moorland
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English
From the heath covered meadow.
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English
English : probably a habitational name, perhaps from a place named Hadley or Hadleigh (see Hadley).
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An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant.
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A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.