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Dreswick Point is the southernmost point of the main island of the Isle of Man. It is the southern tip of the Langness Peninsula in the south-east of the
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(105 ft) 24 nmi (44 km) Designed by David & Thomas Stevenson Langness Dreswick Point 54°03′14″N 4°37′30″W / 54.05389°N 4.62500°W / 54.05389; -4.62500
List of lighthouses in the Isle of Man
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Human settlement in the United Kingdom
"Grave yard of the Lost Ships". Before Langness Lighthouse was built on Dreswick Point in 1880, wrecks on the peninsula were common. During periods of low
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Parish on the Isle of Man
Scarlett. The headlands are Dreswick Point and Langness Point, the two southern extremities of Langness peninsula; and Scarlett Point, a conical mass of sub-columnar
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Station on the Isle of Man
Circuit Southern "100" Races Scarlett Visitors Centre Langness Peninsula Dreswick Point Boyd, James I. C. (1996). The Isle of Man Railway. Vol. 3, An outline
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Kingdom). Seahorse Isle of Man The lugger was driven ashore and sank at Dreswick Point. Theresa United Kingdom The ship was struck by a whirlwind and capsized
List of shipwrecks in June 1845
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missing. Perthshire United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Dreswick Point, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Calais
List of shipwrecks in March 1880
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Ship State Description Chester United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Dreswick Point, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven
List of shipwrecks in January 1832
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High school in Camden County, New Jersey, US
Steph Vuono pitched a masterpiece, outdueling Hunterdon Central's Jess Dreswick for the NJSIAA Group 4 state softball title 2-0 at Toms River North High
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : unexplained. It may be a variant of Gover, but early examples with a definite article, e.g. Richard le Gofiar (Somerset 1327), point to an origin as an occupational name or perhaps a nickname, from an unknown element.
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English
English : from a Norman personal name that appears in Middle English as Geffrey and in Old French as Je(u)froi. Some authorities regard this as no more than a palatalized form of Godfrey, but early forms such as Galfridus and Gaufridus point to a first element from Germanic gala ‘to sing’ or gawi ‘region’, ‘territory’. It is possible that several originally distinct names have fallen together in the same form.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : occupational name from Middle English pointer ‘point maker’, an agent derivative of point, a term denoting a lace or cord used to fasten together doublet and hose (Old French pointe ‘point’, ‘sharp end’). Reaney suggests that in some cases Pointer may have been an occupational name for a tiler or slater whose job was to point the tiles, i.e. render them with mortar where they overlapped.Possibly an altered form of German Pointner, a variant of Bainter.
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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
English : from a Middle English personal name, Kin, Kinna, which is a shortened form of any of various Old English names beginning with Cyne ‘royal’, for example Cynesige (see Kinsey).Dutch : nickname for someone with a pointed or jutting chin.Dutch : from Middle Dutch kinne ‘kin’.Hungarian : nickname from kÃn ‘pain’.Variant of Korean Kim.
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English (Midlands)
English (Midlands) : habitational name from Pointon in Lincolnshire, Poynton in Cheshire, or Poynton Green in Shropshire. The first is named from Old English Pohhingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Pohha’, a byname apparently meaning ‘bag’; the others have as the first element the Old English personal names Pofa and Pēofa respectively.
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English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Middle English, German, or Yiddish elements gold + ring. As an English or German surname it is most probably a nickname for someone who wore a gold ring. As a Jewish surname it is generally an ornamental name.Scottish : habitational name from Goldring in the bailiary of Kylestewart.The name is found in England as early as 1230, when Thomas Goldring is recorded as holding property in Essex and Hertfordshire. The name was quite common in London, Sussex, and Hampshire from early times, and descendants of these bearers are now also well established in Canada. The first known bearer in Scotland is Thomas of Goldringe, who held land in Prestwick in 1511.
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English
English : unexplained.Americanized spelling of German Eimes, a patronymic from a short form of the Germanic personal name Agimo, formed with agi ‘point (of a sword or lance)’ (Old High German ecka).
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English (Lancashire) and Scottish
English (Lancashire) and Scottish : habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, including those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Cleveland, Derbyshire, and Shropshire, get the name from Old English hyll ‘hill’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Others, including those in Cumbria and Dorsetshire, have early forms in Hel- and probably have as their first element Old English hielde ‘slope’ or possibly helde ‘tansy’.English : some early examples such as Ralph filius Hilton (Yorkshire 1219) point to occasional derivation from a personal name, possibly a Norman name Hildun, composed of the Germanic elements hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ + hūn ‘bear cub’. The English surname is present in Ireland (mostly taken to Ulster in the early 17th century, though recorded earlier in Dublin).
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from the medieval personal name Ponc(h)e, Pons (see Ponce).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Ponts in La Manche and Seine-Maritime, Normandy, from Latin pontes ‘bridges’ (see Pont).English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a fop or dandy, from points ‘laces for hose’ (see Pointer 1).
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places named with this word: Hazleton Bottom (Hertfordshire), Hazleton Wood (Essex), or Hazelton (Gloucestershire), which is named from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The present-day distribution of the surname points to the places in Essex and Gloucester as the likely sources.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and East Yorkshire named Beswick. The second element is clearly Old English wÄ«c ‘outlying (dairy) farm’ (see Wick). The first element of the Lancashire name may be an Old English personal name BÄ“ac; that of the Yorkshire name is possibly an Old Norse personal name BÅsi or Besi.
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Irish and Scottish
Irish and Scottish : reduced form of McGee, Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha ‘son of Aodh’ (see McCoy).English : this is a common name in northern England, of uncertain origin. The existence of a patronymic form Geeson points to a personal name, but this has not been satisfactorily identified. It may in fact be the Irish or Scottish name in an English context.French (Gée) : habitational name from any of several places called Gé or Gée, for example in Maine-et-Loire, derived from the Gallo-Roman domain name Gaiacum.
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Shakespearean
King Richard III' Christopher Urswick, a priest.
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English
English : variant of Beswick.
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English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : (of Norman origin): habitational or regional name from Old French mansel ‘inhabitant of Le Mans or the surrounding area of Maine’. The place was originally named in Latin (ad) Ceromannos, from the name of the Gaulish tribe living there, the Ceromanni. The name was reduced to Celmans and then became Le Mans as a result of the mistaken identification of the first syllable with the Old French demonstrative adjective.English (chiefly West Midlands) : status name for a particular type of feudal tenant, Anglo-Norman French mansel, one who occupied a manse (Late Latin mansa ‘dwelling’), a measure of land sufficient to support one family.English (chiefly West Midlands) : some early examples, such as Thomas filius Manselli (Northumbria 1256), point to derivation from a personal name, perhaps the Germanic derivative of Mann 2 Latinized as Manzellinus.
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King Richard III' Christopher Urswick, a priest. 'The Taming of the Shrew' Christopher Sly, a...
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English
English : variant spelling of Joslin.The Josselyn name appears in Black Point (now Scarborough, ME) before 1638, when the author John Josselyn came to visit his brother Henry, who was for many years a principal representative in eastern New England of the interests of the Mason and Gorges heirs, which were endangered by the Massachusetts Bay colony’s expansion into Maine. Their father was Sir Thomas Josselyn, of Torrell’s Hall in Willingale, Essex, England.
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English
English : occupational name meaning ‘servant of Gay’.French : from a Germanic personal name Gaidman or Gaidmar, of which the first element is gaida ‘point (of a lance)’.German (Gaymann) : variant of Gau 1, reinforced by the addition of man ‘man’.Americanized spelling of German Gehmann (see Gehman).
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Tamil
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Worshipped in three worlds
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
King of the Kings
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Hindu
Womanly
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Celtic Welsh
Mythical son of Halwn.
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French
Brave.
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American, British, English
Noble; Glorious
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Hindu, Indian
Bestwoer
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Ukrainian
, of the resurrection.
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Australian, Biblical, Kurdish
Bush
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Broad Eye; One with Big Eyes; Large Eyed; Goddess Durga
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The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
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One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.
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Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
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Having a small, distinct point; apiculate.
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With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.
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In a point-blank manner.
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Alt. of Point-devise
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The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.
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Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.
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With artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal.
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One who, or that which, points.
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Alt. of Point-devise
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See Pointal.
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Pointed as needles.
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Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
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any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.
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A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
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Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion.
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Without point.
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The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.