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English
English : habitational name from Harnage in Shropshire, which has as its second element Old English ecg ‘edge’, ‘steep ridge’; the first is uncertain but may be a derivative, hæren ‘rocky’, of an unrecorded Old English hær ‘stone’. The surname now appears to be extinct in England; in the U.S. it is concentrated in FL and GA.
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Tamil
Point or full stop, Rocky
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Gaelic
Rocky headland.
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English : habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire named Clint, from Old Norse klint ‘rocky cliff’, ‘steep bank’.
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Tamil
Point or full stop, Rocky
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Hindu
Point or full stop, Rocky
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Gaelic Irish
Rocky headland.
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Hindu
Point or full stop, Rocky
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German American
Temptress'; A rocky cliff on the Rhine river dangerous to boat passage; the Lorelei whose singing...
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Scottish
Rocky eminence.
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Gaelic Irish
Rocky headland.
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English
English : regional name from the district around Middlesbrough named Cleveland ‘the land of the cliffs’, from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank’, ‘slope’ + land ‘land’.Americanized spelling of Norwegian Kleiveland or Kleveland, habitational names from any of five farmsteads in Agder and Vestlandet named with Old Norse kleif ‘rocky ascent’ or klefi ‘closet’ (an allusion to a hollow land formation) + land ‘land’.Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the U.S., was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from a certain Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
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English Scottish
Rocky town.
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English
English : topographic name from Old Norse sker ‘rock’, later dialect scar ‘rocky cliff’.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a tor or rocky hilltop (Old English torr, of Celtic origin), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example Torre or Torr in Devon, where the surname is frequent.English : nickname for someone thought to resemble a bull, Anglo-Norman French tor (Latin taurus).English : perhaps a habitational name from a minor place in Fife.
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English : habitational name for someone from Cartledge in Derbyshire, named from Old Norse kartr ‘rocky ground’ + Old English læcc ‘boggy stream’ (both unattested).
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a rocky crag or outcrop, from Old French roche (later replaced in England by rock, from the Norman byform rocque), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, such as Roach in Devon, or Roche in Cornwall and South Yorkshire.English and Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in Normandy, as for example Les Roches in Seine-Maritime, named with Old French roche, or from Roche Castle in Wales.
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English American
Rock.
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English
From the rocky diff.
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English (Cumbria and Lancashire)
English (Cumbria and Lancashire) : habitational name for someone from Cartmel in Cumbria (formerly in Lancashire), the site of a famous priory, inland from Cartmel Sands. The place name is derived from Old Norse kartr ‘rocky ground’ + melr ‘sandbank’.
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Rocky.
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Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
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High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle.
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A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.
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A rocky isle; an insulated rock.
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A small South African antelope (Nanotragus tragulus) which frequents dry, rocky districts; -- called also steenbok.
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An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
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A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.
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The state or quality of being rocky.
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Like a scar, or rocky eminence; containing scars.
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Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
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Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
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A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
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An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
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Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.
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A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.
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An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
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A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
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Full of rocks; rocky.