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English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : habitational name from Mankea in Cornwall, named with Corinsh men ‘stone’ + kee ‘bank’, ‘hedge’.Americanized form of German Manke.
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English (mainly Sussex)
English (mainly Sussex) : variant of Hedge, with the addition of agent suffix -er.
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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 : from the Old Norse byname Haki (cognate with Hook), given originally to someone with a hunched figure or a hooked nose.North German : variant of Haack.Dutch and North German : from the Germanic personal name Hac(c)o, a short form of a compound name beginning with the element hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hacke.
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English
English : variant of Hitchcock, altered by folk etymology.
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English
English : nickname from Old French hérisson ‘hedgehog’.
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Irish
Irish : reduced form of O’Hayden, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin and Ó hÉidÃn ‘descendant of Éideán’ or ‘descendant of ÉidÃn’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes’, ‘armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford.English : habitational name from any of various places called Hayden or Haydon. The three examples of Haydon in Northumberland are named from Old English hÄ“g ‘hay’ + denu ‘valley’. Others, for example in Dorset, Hertfordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, get the name from Old English hÄ“g ‘hay’ (or perhaps hege ‘hedge’ or (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’) + dÅ«n ‘hill’.Jewish : see Heiden.
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English
English : variant of Hedge.
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English
English : variant of Ayer.English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, Middle English hay (see Hay 1) + the suffix -er(e) denoting an inhabitant.French : occupational name for a warder of woodland, from an agent derivative of Old French haye ‘hedge’, ‘enclosed forest’.South German : from an agent derivative of Middle High German heien ‘to guard or protect’, hence an occupational name for a warden of woodland or crops.Indian (Panjab) : Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan, also called Her.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a hazelnut tree or grove, Middle English hasel, hesel, or perhaps a habitational name from a minor place named with this word such as Heazille Barton or Heazle Farm in Devon, or from Hessle in East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, both named from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ (influenced by Old Norse hesli).French : possibly a topographic name a diminutive of Old French hase, haise ‘hedge’.
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Irish (especially County Waterford)
Irish (especially County Waterford) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉamhthaigh ‘descendant of Éamhthach’, an adjective meaning ‘swift’.English : habitational name from Heapey in Lancashire, named in Old English as ‘(rose)hip hedge or enclosure’, hēope ‘hip’ + hege ‘hedge’ or gehæg ‘enclosure’.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced enclosure (Old English haga), or a habitational name from a place named with this word (or its Old Norse cognate hagi), especially three places called Haigh, two in West Yorkshire and the other near Manchester.
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English
English : habitational name from Haywards Heath in Sussex, which was named in Old English as ‘enclosure with a hedge’, from hege ‘hedge’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The modern form, with its affix, arose much later on (Mills gives an example from 1544).
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English
English : habitational name from a place called Ketton in Durham or one in Rutland or from Keaton in Ermington, Devon. The first is named from the Old English personal name Catta or the Old Norse personal name Káti + Old English tūn ‘settlement’; the second is probably from an old river name or tribal name Cētan (possibly a derivative of Celtic cēd ‘wood’) + Old English ēa ‘river’; and the last possibly from Cornish kee ‘hedge’, ‘bank’ + Old English tūn.
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English (northeastern counties)
English (northeastern counties) : unexplained. Compare Hedgepeth.
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English
English : variant of Hitchcock. Compare Hedgecock.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge, Middle English hegg(e).
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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
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcc), or a habitational name from Great Heck in North Yorkshire, which is named with this word. Compare Hatch.German : topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Hec(q), a topographic name from Old French hec ‘gate’, ‘barrier’, ‘fence’ (compare 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.Shortened form of the Dutch surname van (den) Hecke, a habitational name from any of several places called ten Hekke in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear’, or ‘javelin’.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).Southern French : variant of Laine.Possibly also a variant of Southern French Lande.
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n.
A young hedgehog.
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One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
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A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
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A tool for trimming hedges.
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The bindings of a hedge.
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A close or thick hedge.
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Born under a hedge; of low birth.
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Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.
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Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.
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Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
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The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.
v. t.
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
imp. & p. p.
of Hedge
v. i.
To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
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The urchin, or hedgehog.
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Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
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One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
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Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
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A hedgehog.
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Having no hedge.