uncultivated ground

  • 11Rheubottom — This name, with variant spellings Ro(u)bottom, Roobottam, Rowbotham, Roebotham, Robatham etc., is of English topographic origin for someone who lived in an overgrown valley. The name derives from the Old English pre 7th Century ruh , rough or… …

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  • 12Rhubottom — Recorded as Robatham, Robathon, Rhubottom, Roubottom, Roobottam, Rowbotham, Roebotham, and possibly others, this is an English surname. It is either topographical for someone who lived in an overgrown valley, or possibly locational from a now… …

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  • 13Robatham — Recorded as Robatham, Robathon, Roubottom, Roobottam, Rowbotham, Roebotham, and possibly others, this is an English Surname. It is either topographical for someone who lived in an overgrown valley, or possibly locational from a now lost medieval… …

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  • 14Robathon — Recorded as Robatham, Robathon, Roubottom, Roobottam, Rowbotham, Roebotham, and possibly others, this is an English Surname. It is either topographical for someone who lived in an overgrown valley, or possibly locational from a now lost medieval… …

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  • 15Robotham — Recorded as Robatham, Robathon, Roubottom, Roobottam, Rowbotham, Roebotham, and possibly others, this is an English Surname. It is either topographical for someone who lived in an overgrown valley, or possibly locational from a now lost medieval… …

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  • 16Rough — This name is of English topographic origin for one dwelling on or by a patch of rough uncultivated ground. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century ruh meaning rough . The surname from this source is first recorded in 1332, John ate …

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  • 17Rowden — This unusual name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a locational surname deriving from the place called Rowden in Herefordshire, near the town of Hereford. The place is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ruedene , and in the Fees Book of… …

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  • 18Ruff — This name is of English topographic origin for one dwelling on or by a patch of rough uncultivated ground. The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century ruh meaning rough . The surname from this source is first recorded in 1332, John ate …

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  • 19jungle — (n.) 1776, from Hindi jangal desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground, from Skt. jangala s arid, sparsely grown with trees, of unknown origin. Specific sense of land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass is first recorded 1849;… …

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  • 20yard — yard1 noun 1》 (abbrev.: yd) a unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).     ↘a square or cubic yard, especially of sand or other building materials. 2》 a cylindrical spar, tapering to each end, slung across a ship s mast for a sail… …

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