What is the name meaning of LINCOLN. Phrases containing LINCOLN
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English (Lincolnshire)
English (Lincolnshire) : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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English (Lincolnshire)
English (Lincolnshire) : unexplained. Black identified this as a Scottish name of Pictish origin. However, the modern distribution of the surname, almost exclusively in Lincolnshire and adjoining counties, suggests a more localized eastern English origin.
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English (Lincolnshire)
English (Lincolnshire) : origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of Braddle, itself a variant of Bradwell.
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English (mainly Lincolnshire)
English (mainly Lincolnshire) : patronymic from the medieval personal name Hudde (see Hutt 1).
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English (Lincolnshire) : unexplained.This name is recorded in Rehoboth, MA, from the mid 17th century on.
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English (Lincolnshire) : occupational name for a maker of bags and purses, from an agent derivative of Middle English pouche ‘purse’, ‘bag’. In the Middle Ages pouches were a universal personal accessory, as clothing with pockets was unknown.
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English (chiefly Lincolnshire) : patronymic from Hew (see Hugh).Scottish and Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha (see McCoy).
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English (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) : unexplained; possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gördeler (see gurtler 2).
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English (Lincolnshire)
English (Lincolnshire) : variant spelling of Heath.
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English : habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement’, ‘colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the United States, was the son of an illiterate laborer, descended from a certain Samuel Lincoln, who had emigrated from England to MA in 1637.
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English (mainly Lincolnshire) : variant of Pottinger.German : habitational name for someone from any of the places named Petting or Pötting in eastern Bavaria.German (Böttinger) : habitational name for someone from any of four places in Württemberg called Böttingen.
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English (Lincolnshire) and Scottish
English (Lincolnshire) and Scottish : from an Old English personal name Tocca.German : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Theodicho, formed with Germanic theod- ‘people’, ‘tribe’. Compare Dietrich.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a turner, from Yiddish tok ‘turner’s lathe’ (see Tokar).
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English (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire)
English (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) : unexplained.
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English (Lincolnshire) : variant spelling of Ranson.
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English (Lincolnshire) : from the Old English personal name Wuduleof.
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English (Lincolnshire) : occupational name for ‘the servant of the Maiden’.
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English surname transferred to forename use, from the name of the city of Lincoln, which was originally called Lindum colonia, LINCOLN means "lake colony."Â
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English (mainly Lincolnshire) : possibly from Old French preux ‘wise’, ‘brave’ + Jean ‘John’.
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English (Lincolnshire) : variant of Yarbrough.
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English (Lincolnshire) : unexplained.
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The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
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In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.
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One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.
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A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.