Headley

name

name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A place in England:; A village in Ashford Hill with Headley parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5162). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A place in England:; A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU8236). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A place in England:; A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2054). countable, uncountable

Example

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"Giles Headley the younger was a fine tall youth, but clumsy and untrained in the use of his limbs, and he rode a large, powerful brown horse, which brooked no companionship, lashing out with its shaggy hoofs at any of its kind that approached it, more especially at poor, plump, mottled Poppet."

Etymology

From Old English hǣþ (“heath”) + lēah (“clearing”).

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