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name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9732).
  2. 2
    A town on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States; named after the village in Wiltshire.

Etymology

From Old English Ċiġelmearc, from *ċiġel (“peg, pole”) + mearc (“boundary, mark”).

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