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- SHAW
- (Scotch.) A lawn, a plain surrounded by trees, or an open space between woods.
- HERNSHAW
- Local. From hern, a kind of fowl, a hern, and shaw, a shady inclosure, a place where herns breed.
- FANSHAW
- Local. Fane, a temple or church, and shaw, a small wood or grove, a thicket the church in the grove.
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Source : An etymological dictionary of family and Christian names - By William Arthur - 1857.
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