English Explanatory Dictionary

Stockley

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A hamlet in Okehampton Hamlets parish, West Devon district, Devon, England, adjacent to Stockley Hamlet (OS grid ref SX6096).
  3. A village in Calne Without parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU002674).
  4. An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
  5. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Stockley Stockleys

Etymology

From Old English stocc (“log, stump, tree trunk”) + lēah (“clearing, glade”). Equivalent to stock + -ley (“lea”).

Derived words

Stockley Hamlet
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