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Barrell

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of barrel. alt-of, obsolete

    "And ſhe ſaid, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but an handfull of meale in a barrell, and a little oyle in a cruſe: […]"

Etymology

Various origins: * Metonymic occupational surname for a cooper or a nickname for an obese man or an immoderate drinker, from Old French baril (“barrel”). * Habitational surname from Barwell, in Leicestershire, from Old English bār (“boar”) + wielle (“well, spring”).

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