English Explanatory Dictionary

Shawcross

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Shawcross Shawcrosses

Etymology

Probably a habitational surname from Shaw Cross, a suburb of Dewsbury, a town in West Yorkshire, from Old English sċeaga (“copse, thicket”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

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