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Boy/Male
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Son of Perkin.
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Son of Perkin; Little Rock
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Son of Perkin
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English : variant of Parkinson.
Surname or Lastname
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English : patronymic from Perkin, also found throughout mid and south Wales.Dutch : patronymic from a pet form of Peer, a Dutch form of Peter.
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n.
The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.
n.
A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.