Dewitt

Meanings

1. A surname from Dutch.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

1. To lynch.

1. A surname from Dutch, an anglicization of de Witt.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A city and one of the two county seats of Arkansas County, Arkansas; named for DeWitt Clinton.
4. A village in Illinois; named for DeWitt Clinton.
5. A city in Iowa; named for American politician and naturalist DeWitt Clinton.
6. A city in Michigan; named for DeWitt Clinton.
7. A town in New York; named for judge and soldier Maj. Moses DeWitt.
8. An unincorporated community in Virginia.

Etymology

From Dutch de Witt. The verb sense alludes to the 17th-century assassination by lynching of Dutch politicians Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt.