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RYE
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English (chiefly Devon and Somerset)
English (chiefly Devon and Somerset) : habitational name from any of several minor places in Somerset and Devon named with southwestern Middle English ya or yo (Old English ēa ‘stream’, ‘river’, the same word as found in Nye, Rye, and Tye).Korean : variant of Yoh.
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English
English : habitational name from any of several places in England named from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + hyll ‘hill’, e.g. Ryal and Ryle in Northumbria, Ryhill in West Yorkshire, or Ryehill in East Yorkshire. See also Ryle.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a small enclosed field (Old English croft) where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or a habitational name from any of various minor places so named, such as Ryecoft in Gloucestershire or Cheshire.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named Roughton or Wroughton. Roughton, Lincolnshire, the most likely source of the surname according to its present-day distribution, and Roughton, Norfolk, are both named from Old English rūh ‘rough’ or Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + tūn ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. Roughton, Shropshire is named with Old English rūh + tūn, and Wroughton, Wiltshire (the least likely source of the surname) from Worf, a Celtic river name meaning ‘winding stream’, + Old English tūn.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : nickname denoting someone who behaved in a regal fashion or who had earned the title in some contest of skill or by presiding over festivities, from Old French rey, roy ‘king’. Occasionally this was used as a personal name.English : nickname for a timid person, from Middle English ray ‘female roe deer’ or northern Middle English ray ‘roebuck’.English : variant of Rye (1 and 2).English : habitational name, a variant spelling of Wray.Scottish : reduced and altered form of McRae.French : from a noun derivative of Old French raier ‘to gush, stream, or pour’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or rushing stream, or a habitational name from a place called Ray.Indian : variant of Rai.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Kent, so called from an obscure first element, rumen, + Old English ēa ‘river’ (see Rye).
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English (southeastern)
English (southeastern) : topographic name arising from a misdivision of Middle English atten (e)ye which means either ‘at the river’ or ‘at the island’, from Old English ēa ‘river’ and ēg ‘island’ respectively. Both these words were feminine in Old English, and so should have been preceded only by Middle English atter (see Rye), but distinctions of gender ceased to be carefully maintained in the Middle English period.
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British, English
Rye
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on an island or patch of firm ground surrounded by fens, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (from Old English ēg, īeg ‘island’).English : topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at the river’ (from Old English ēa ‘river’).English : topographic name for someone living at a place where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold it.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named, most of them from Old Norse rjóðr ‘clearing in a forest’, but others from ry ‘dry place with stones’.Danish : habitational name from a place called Rye.
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English
English : habitational name from Cadborough, alias Gateborough, in Rye, Sussex, probably so named from Old English gÄt ‘goat’ + beorg ‘hill’.
Male
Arthurian
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Boy/Male
English
Rygetun - from the rye farm.
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English
English : variant of Rye 1 and 2.
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English
English : topographic name, a variant of Rye 1 and 2, with the addition of man ‘man’.Swedish : ornamental name composed of the place name element ryd ‘woodland clearing’ + man ‘man’.Swiss German (Rymann) : variant of Reimann 1, 3.
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English
English : topographic name, a variant of Rye 1 and 2, with the addition of ‘man’.German (Raymann) and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rÄd ‘counsel’ + man ‘man’.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Rehmann.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Reinmann or central Yiddish raynman ‘pure man’.
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Irish
Irish : variant spelling of Reilly.English : habitational name from Ryley in Lancashire, so named from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. There is a Riley with the same meaning in Devon, but it does not seem to have contributed to the surname, which is more common in northern England.
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English
English : variant of Rye 1 and 2.Norwegian : habitational name from any of six farmsteads named Re, the name being derived from an unattested Old Norse word meaning ‘long narrow gravel ridge’.Korean : variant of Yi.
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English
English : variant of Rye 1 and 2.reduced form of Scottish McRea.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a piece of land where rye was grown, from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + land ‘land’.Norwegian : habitational name from any of three farmsteads in Vestlandet so named from an unexplained first element + land ‘land’, ‘farm’.Probably an altered spelling of Dutch Reiland.
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From the Rye Field
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v. t.
To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
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A genus of cereal grasses including rye.
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A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
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Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
v. i.
To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
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A disease in a hawk.
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The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
v. t.
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
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A Russian drink distilled from rye.
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Ergotized rye or other grain.
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An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.
v. i.
To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
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See Rye.
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The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
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Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
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A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
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The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
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Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
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A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.