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Sasse

//sæs// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable. obsolete

    "Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).

Etymology 2

* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sasse (“Saxon”) (modern Sasse), from Old Saxon Sahso, from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. * As a French surname, from the ancient Germanic name Sahso, shortened pet form of compound names containing the element sahs (“Saxon”), itself from the root of the above.

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