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English
English : occupational name for someone who thatched cottages with reeds, from an agent derivative of Middle English rēd(en) ‘to cover with reeds’.Americanized spelling of German Rieder.
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English : nickname for a tall thin man, from Middle English, Old French cane ‘cane’, ‘reed’ (Latin canna). It may also be a topographic name for someone who lived in a damp area overgrown with reeds, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered reeds, which were widely used in the Middle Ages as a floor covering, as roofing material, and for weaving small baskets.Southern Italian : either a habitational name from a place named Canè, in Bescia and Belluna, or more likely an occupational name for a basket maker or the like, from Greek kanna ‘reed’ + the occupational suffix -(e)as.French : Norman and Picard variant of chane a term denoting a particular type of elongated pitcher (ultimately from Latin canna ‘reed’), hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a potter who specialized in making such jugs, or a nickname for someone who resembled one.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Köhn (see Kuehn).
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Tamil
Clump of reeds
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English
English : habitational name from Redbourn in Hertfordshire or Redbourne in Humberside (formerly Lincolnshire), named with Old English hrēod ‘reeds’ + burna ‘stream’.
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English
English : apparently a variant of Reed.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Reetz or Rietz.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from Radbourn in Warwickshire or Radbourne in Derbyshire, both of which get their names from Old English hrēod ‘reeds’ (a collective singular) + burna ‘stream’.
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English or Welsh (Bristol and Gwent)
English or Welsh (Bristol and Gwent) : perhaps a variant of Biss.German : from Middle Low German bēse ‘reed’, ‘bulrush’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who used reeds in his work, for example a brush maker.Americanized spelling of Biese, a North German variant of 2.
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English : variant of Rusher.Americanized spelling of German Rischer, a nickname for a hasty or impetuous person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rischen ‘to rush’.Americanized spelling of Swiss German Rüscher, a topographic name for someone who lived on a mountainside, from southern dialect risch ‘slope’, ‘mountainside’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of North German Rischer, a topographic name from Middle Low German risch ‘reed’, a topographic name for someone who lived where reeds grew.Anglicized form of Eastern German Rischar, a nickname from Sorbian rýsar ‘knight’.
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Scottish and northern Irish
Scottish and northern Irish : habitational name from Rerrick or Rerwick in Kirkcudbrightshire, named with an unknown first element + wīc ‘outlying settlement’. It is also possible that the first element was originally Old Norse rauðr ‘red’.English : habitational name from Redwick in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with hrēod ‘reeds’ + wīc ‘outlying settlement’.
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English : perhaps a habitational name from Rushmere in Suffolk, near Lowestoft, so named from Old English rysc ‘rushes’ + mere ‘pond’, ‘lake’.perhaps also an Americanized form of German Ruschmeier, a topographic name for a farmer who lived and farmed in an area where reeds grew (see Rusch 1 and Meyer).
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Thackray in the parish of Great Timble, West Yorkshire, now submerged in Fewston reservoir. It was named with Old Norse þak ‘thatching’, ‘reeds’ + (v)rá ‘nook’, ‘corner’.
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Clump of reeds, Lord Murugan
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English American German
island of reeds. Also a famous ruler.
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Clump of reeds, Lord Murugan
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Clump of reeds, Lord Murugan
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Of reeds.
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English
English : nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English re(a)d ‘red’.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, from an unattested Old English rīed, r̄d ‘woodland clearing’.English : Read in Lancashire, the name of which is a contracted form of Old English rǣghēafod, from rǣge ‘female roe deer’, ‘she-goat’ + hēafod ‘head(land)’; Rede in Suffolk, so called from Old English hrēod ‘reeds’; or Reed in Hertfordshire, so called from an Old English ryhð ‘brushwood’.English : A family called Read were established in America in the early 18th century by John Read, who was born in Dublin, sixth in descent from Sir Thomas Read of Berkshire, England. His son, George Read (1733–98), was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and as a lawyer helped frame the Constitution.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who constructed or repaired roofs, from an agent derivative of Middle English roof (Old English hrÅf). In the Middle Ages roofs might be thatched with reeds or straw, or covered with tiles, slates, or wooden shingles.German and English : nickname for an unscrupulous individual, from Middle Low German rÅver ‘pirate’, ‘robber’, Middle English rover. The English verb rove ‘to wander’ is probably a back-formation from this, and is not attested before the 16th century, so it is unlikely to lie behind any examples of the surname.German : variant of Röver (see Roever).
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English
English : nickname for a tall, thin man, from Middle English spir ‘stalk’, ‘stem’. This was apparently used as a personal name or byname, in view of the fact that there are patronymic derivatives. In some Middle English dialects this word also denoted reeds, and the surname may in part have been originally a topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy area. The application to a church steeple is not attested before the 16th century, and is not a likely source of the surname.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Spiro.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land on which grew bent grass, rushes, or reeds (Middle English bent).
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A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
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A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
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Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
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Consisting of a reed or reeds.
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Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.
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Civered with reeds; reedy.
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A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.
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Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
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A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
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To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.
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A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.
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A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.
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A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
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The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
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To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
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Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
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A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
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Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
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Producing reeds; reedy.
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The reedbuck, a South African antelope (Cervicapra arundinacea); -- so called from its frequenting dry places covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.