jan 1, 1567 - leming

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A popular name for an ox, probably the Middle English word for ‘lightning’, an ironic nickname. 1545 <i>one yocke of oxen the one called Lemynge and the other Burnett, </i> Conisbrough (SS106/231); 1553 <i>and to my dowghter Alice Wattes one oxe called lemynge </i>, Wakefield (Th19/332); 1567 <i>one yoke of oxen called ... Lyghtbowne and Lemynge, </i> Crofton (YAJ36/440). The same word was probably the source of the common Ribblesdale surname Leeming: 1379 <i>sutor Willelmus Lemyng </i>, Paythorne; <i>Johannes Lemyng </i>, Stainforth (GRDict).

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