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HAW
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English (mainly central and southeastern England)
English (mainly central and southeastern England) : patronymic from a personal name (see Hawk 1), or a variant of Hawk 2.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a bush or hedge of hawthorn (Old English haguþorn, hægþorn, i.e. thorn used for making hedges and enclosures, Old English haga, (ge)hæg), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Hawthorn in County Durham. In Scotland the surname originated in the Durham place name, and from Scotland it was taken to Ireland. This spelling is now found primarily in northern Ireland.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) was a direct descendant of Major William Hathorne, one of the English Puritans who settled in MA in 1630, and whose son John Hathorne was one of the judges in the Salem witchcraft trials. The writer’s father was a sea captain, as was his grandfather, the revolutionary war hero Daniel Hathorne (1731–96). The spelling of the surname was altered by the novelist.
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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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Possibly an altered spelling of Haase.English
Possibly an altered spelling of Haase.English : variant spelling of Hawes.
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English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : habitational name from Haworth in West Yorkshire, named with Old English haga ‘enclosure’ (here perhaps with the sense ‘hedge’) + worð ‘enclosure’.English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : variant of Howarth.
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English (chiefly South Yorkshire)
English (chiefly South Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place called Hawksworth; there is one in West Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Hafoc ‘hawk’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’; another, in Nottinghamshire, is probably named from the Old English personal name Hoc + worð.
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Hawaiian
Hawaiian : unexplained.Laotian : unexplained.English : probably a variant of Kew.
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English
English : patronymic from the personal name Hawkin (see Hawkins 1).
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from Middle English hauek ‘hawk’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a hawker (see Hawker), a name denoting a tenant who held land in return for providing hawks for his lord, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hawk. There was an Old English personal name (originally a byname) H(e)afoc ‘hawk’, which persisted into the early Middle English period as a personal name and may therefore also be a source.English (Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated nook, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc), or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word, such as Halke in Sheldwich, Kent.
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English
English : variant of or patronymic from Hawk.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant spelling of Hawthorne.
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English
English : patronymic from the Middle English personal name Hawkin, a diminutive of Hawk 1 with the Anglo-Norman French hypocoristic suffix -in.English : in the case of one family (see note below), this is a variant of Hawkinge, a habitational name from a place in Kent, so called from Old English Hafocing ‘hawk place’.Irish : sometimes used as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEacháin (see Haughn).
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : nickname meaning ‘hawk eye’.
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English hauk, hauek ‘hawk’ + ley(e) ‘open country’, ‘grassland’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Hawkesley Hall in King’s Norton, Worcestershire, named from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’, ‘clearing’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who bred and trained hawks, Middle English haueker (an agent derivative of haueke ‘hawk’). Hawking was a major medieval sport, and the provision and training of hawks for a feudal lord was a not uncommon obligation in lieu of rent. The right of any free man to keep hawks for his own use was conceded in Magna Carta (though social status determined what kind of bird someone could keep, the kestrel being the lowest grade).
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Native American
Native American Hopi name HAWIOVI means "going down the ladder."
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English
English : variant spelling of Hawk.
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Possibly an altered spelling of Haas.English
Possibly an altered spelling of Haas.English : variant spelling of Hawes.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from a Middle English personal name (see Hawkins).
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English
Anglicized form of Danish/Norwegian HÃ¥vard, HAWARD means "high guard." This is an older form of modern English Howard.
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n.
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.
v. i.
To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
v. t.
To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.
n.
A hawse hole.
a.
Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.
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Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
n.
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
v. i.
To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
n.
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
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of Haw
n.
A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.
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of Hawk
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of Hawk
v. i.
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
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Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
v. t.
To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
n.
A native of Hawaii.
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of Haw
v. t.
To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
n.
Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2.