English Explanatory Dictionary

Shaftoe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Shaftoe Shaftoes

Etymology

Habitational surname from two minor places in Hartburn, Northumberland, from Old English sċeaft (“shaft, pole”) + hōh (“heel; spur of land”).

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