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GAUNT
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Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : from a Germanic personal name composed of hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’ + hari, heri ‘army’.from a Germanic personal name, Hadugar, composed of the elements hadu- ‘combat’, ‘strife’ + gari, from garwa ‘ready’, ‘eager’.German (also Häger) : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced enclosure, Middle High German hac.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a thin man, from Middle High German, German hager ‘thin’, ‘gaunt’.English : occupational name for a woodcutter, from an agent derivative of Middle English haggen ‘to cut or chop’.
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Shakespearean
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : of uncertain origin. The most plausible suggestion is that it is a nickname for someone who was in the habit of wearing gloves, from Old French ganté, a derivative of gant ‘glove’ (see Gant) or an occupational name for a glove-maker, Old French gantier. However, a certain Hugh de Gandy was High Sheriff of Devon in 1167; it is possible that his surname is a habitational name from some unidentified place in France or even from Ghent in Flanders (see Gaunt 1).
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English
English : habitational name from Ghent in Flanders, from which many wool workers and other skilled craftsmen migrated to England in the early Middle Ages. The surname is found most commonly in West Yorkshire, around Leeds. The Flemish place name is first recorded in Latin documents as Gandi and Gandavum; it is apparently of Celtic origin, but of uncertain meaning.English : from a nickname from Middle English gaunt ‘thin’, ‘wasted’, ‘haggard’ (of uncertain, possibly Scandinavian, origin).English : variant of Gant.
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English
English : unexplained; perhaps a diminutive of Gaunt.
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English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from various places in France named Beaufort, for example in Nord, Somme, and Pas-de-Calais, from Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + fort ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’.A powerful English family of this name originated with the bastard children of John of Gaunt and Catherine Swinford, who were legitimized by Act of Parliament. Their name was derived from their father’s castle, Beaufort, in Champagne.
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n.
A long glove, covering the wrist.
n.
Alt. of Gauntry
n.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
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A glove. See Gauntlet.
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Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
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Wearing a gauntlet.
v. t.
Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
n.
A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.
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Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
n.
A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
adv.
In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
superl.
Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
n.
See Gauntree.
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See Gantlet.
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Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.
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A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
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With gaunt or slender legs. (?)
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See Gauntree.
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A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.