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The Wire surname in historical dictionaries

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857)


Local. A market town of Hertfordshire, England. Saxon Waer, to defend, to hold, protect. Wear, a fence of stakes or rods set in a stream for catching fish; a dam.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

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