English Explanatory Dictionary

Wainfleet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Short for Wainfleet All Saints and Wainfleet St Mary, neighbouring settlements and civil parishes in Lincolnshire, England.
  2. A rural township in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.

Word forms

Wainfleet

Etymology

Ultimately from Old English wæġn (“wagon”) + flēot (“small stream”).

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