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BAR :
Local. A town of France. Barr, a parish in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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BARR :
(Celtic.) Local. The top or summit of any thing, any thing round. Bar, Gaelic, an old word for a bard or learned man. Bar, local, a bank of sand or earth, a shoal; the shore of the sea. It may be derived from Barre, a town in France, or from Barr, a parish and village in Ayrshire, Scotland.
BARSTOW :
Local. May have various significations. Barr, the top of a hill, and stow, a place or depository. Bar, in the Gaelic, Welsh, and Cornish-British, means the summit or top of any thing. The Gaelic or Irish aran and barr, signify bread, a crop of grain; Welsh, bar, bread, an ear of corn; Saxon, bar and bere, corn, barley. Barstow, a place where grain is stored.
BLAIN :
(Fr.) Local. From the town of Blain, in Bretagne, France. Blaen, in the Welsh, signifies the summit or top; the same aspen, brig, and bar, the highest part of a mountain; the end or top of an object; the inland extremity of a glen; a leader or chief.
CUPAR :
Local. A borough in Fifeshire, Scotland; the inclosed or fortified hill, from Cu, Gaelic, inclosed, and bar, a top, a hill. Cu, a hero, a chief the chiefs hill or fortress.
TELFAIR :
(Italian.) Tagliaferro, pronounced Tollifer. Fr., tailler, to cut, and fer, iron. It is said that the first of the name was so called from having cut a bar of iron in two with his sword. A smith.
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