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QUARRY
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English
English : occupational name for a worker in a quarry, from Middle English stone ‘stone’ + an agent derivative of breken ‘to break’.Translation of German Steinbrecher or the Dutch equivalent, Steenbreker.
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Irish (Ulster)
Irish (Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÃr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland.Irish : Anglicized form of Ó hAichir ‘descendant of Aichear’, a personal name derived from the epithet aichear ‘fierce’, ‘sharp’. In Ireland this name is more commonly Anglicized as O’Hehir.English : nickname for a swift runner (possibly a speedy messenger) or a timorous person, from Middle English hare ‘hare’. However, the surname Ayer and its variants was sometimes recorded as Hare.English : topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’, ‘tumulus’.French : according to Morlet, an occupational name for a huntsman, from a medieval French call used to urge on the hounds, or, in the form Haré, from the past participle of harer ‘to excite, stir up (hounds in pursuit of a quarry)’.
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Irish and Manx
Irish and Manx : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire (see McQuarrie).English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French quaré ‘square’. Compare Carré (see Carre).English : from Middle English quarey ‘quarry’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in one.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Staffordshire, recorded as Bidolf in Domesday Book, from Old English bī ‘beside’ + dylf ‘digging’ (a putative derivative of delfan ‘to dig’), i.e. a mine or quarry.
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English and southern French
English and southern French : from Middle English, Old French car(r)ier (Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of carrum ‘cart’, ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an occupational name for someone who transported goods, in French for a cartwright.French : occupational name for a stonemason or quarryman, carrier.
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English
English : from Middle English delf ‘excavation’, ‘digging’ (Old English (ge)delf), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or quarry, a metonymic occupational name for a ditch-cutter or quarryman, or alternatively a habitational name from any of various places named with this word, as for example Delf in Kent and Delph in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) and Yorkshire.
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Variant of French Dufort.English
Variant of French Dufort.English : apparently a habitational name, perhaps from Dulford in Broadhembury, Devon, which is named from an unattested Old English word dylfet ‘pit’, ‘quarry’.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English
Brown Fortress; Brown Hills with Stones; From the Brown Rock Quarry
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French and English
French and English : occupational name for a quarryman, from Old
French perrier, an agent derivative of pierre ‘stone’,
‘rock’.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pear
tree, from Middle English perie ‘pear tree’ + the suffix
-er, denoting an inhabitant.A Perrier, also called
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Egyptian
, the son of Cleopatra VI. and Julius Cæsar.
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English
English : habitational name from Tillinghurst in Sussex, earlier Tytyngehurst ‘wooded hill of Tytta’s family or followers’, from the Old English personal name Tytta + -inga- ‘of the family or followers of’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
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British, English
Highborn Friend
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Ackley, ACKLIE means "oak meadow."
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Afghan, African, Arabic, British, English, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Pakistani, Sindhi, Swahili
Good; Suitable; Righteousness
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
A Sprout
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Tamil
Mischievous girl
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Hindu, Indian
Unique
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Australian, Vietnamese
Peace
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English
English : from a pet form of the female personal name Elizabeth. Compare Hibbs 2.English : nickname for someone with very fair hair or skin, from Middle English, Old English lilie ‘lily’ (Latin lilium). The Italian equivalent Giglio was used as a personal name in the Middle Ages. In English and other languages there has also been some confusion with forms of Giles.English : habitational name from places called Lilley, in Hertfordshire and Berkshire. The Hertfordshire place was named in Old English as ‘flax-glade’, from līn ‘flax’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Berkshire name is from Old English Lillinglēah ‘wood associated with Lilla’, an Old English personal name.
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n.
A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
v. t.
To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
n.
Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
n.
The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Quarry
v. t.
To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
n.
The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air.
n.
A heap of game killed.
pl.
of Quarry
v. t.
To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
n.
A quarry; an open cut.
a.
Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
v. i.
To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
n.
Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
pl.
of Quarry-man
a.
Quadrate; square.
imp. & p. p.
of Quarry
n.
A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.
n.
A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
n.
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).