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English
English : from the Old English personal name Wegga.
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English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
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British, English
Spear; Wedge-shaped Object; Triangular Shaped Piece of Land
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English
English : variant of Warwick.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of warrocks, wedges of timber that were used to tighten the joints in a scaffold.
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English
English : habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from Cēol, an Old English personal name, or alternatively from an unattested Old Scandinavian word, kæl ‘wedge-shaped piece of land’, + ēg ‘island’, ‘area of dry land in a marsh’.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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English
English : probably a perhaps variant of Wedgewood; otherwise a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : nickname from Middle English wigge ‘beetle’, ‘bug’.English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, Middle English wigge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.
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English
English : habitational name from Wedgwood in Staffordshire.
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuáin ‘descendant of Cuán’, a byname from a diminutive of cú ‘hound’, ‘dog’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cadhain ‘descendant of Cadhan’, a byname from cadhan ‘barnacle goose’.Irish : Anglicized form of Ó Comhgháin ‘descendant of Comghán’, a Connacht name usually Anglicized as Coen.Irish : variant of Quinn.English : metonymic occupational name for a minter of money, or a derogatory nickname for a miser, from Middle English coin ‘piece of money’ (earlier the die used to stamp money, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’).
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Lamp of God
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Australian, Portuguese
One who is Victorious
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Indian
Perfect wife.
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American, Australian, Biblical, British, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Latin, Portuguese, Shakespearean, Swedish
Lame; Limping; Disabled
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Sky
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Arabic, Muslim
Seeker of Kindness / Mercy (from Allah)
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Egyptian
Great god of Annu.
Female
English
English short form of Latin Victoria, TORIA means "conqueror" or "victory."
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Australian, British, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
Peaceful; Variant of Shalom; Peaceful Ruler
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Latin American French English Shakespearean
Patient.
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adv.
In the manner of a wedge.
a.
Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
a.
Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
n.
An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
v. t.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
n.
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
a.
Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
v. t.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
imp. & p. p.
of Wedge
n.
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
a.
Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
v. t.
To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
a.
Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
n.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
v. t.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
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Not to be split with wedges.
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One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
v. t.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
v. t.
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.