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• Smethe Lane —    House in Smethe lane, 1282 (Ct. H.W. I. 60).    Tenement in Smethe lane in parish of All Hallows de Berkyngecherche, 1325 (ib. 314).    Qy. = Siuethelane = Seething Lane.    Povah in his Annals of St. Olave Hart Street (p.3), says he found in… …   Dictionary of London

• Smead — This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century Smethe meaning smooth and was a topographical name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground. It may also be of… …   Surnames reference

• Smeath — This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century Smethe meaning smooth and was a topographical name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground. It may also be of… …   Surnames reference

• Smee — This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century Smethe meaning smooth and was a topographical name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground. It may also be of… …   Surnames reference

• Smeed — This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century Smethe meaning smooth and was a topographical name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground. It may also be of… …   Surnames reference

• Smeeth — This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may derive from the Old English pre 7th Century Smethe meaning smooth and was a topographical name for someone who lived on a piece of smooth, level ground. It may also be of… …   Surnames reference

• Smees — This interesting and unusual surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may be a topographical name from residence on a piece of smooth, level ground, from the Olde English pre 7th Century smethe , smooth …   Surnames reference

• Athersmith — This interesting surname of English origin is a topographical name for someone who lived at the smithy and was presumably a blacksmith, deriving from the old English pre 7th Century smitte meaning smithy . The surname might also derive from the… …   Surnames reference

• smooth — smoothable, adj. smoother, n. smoothly, adv. smoothness, n. /smoohdh/, adj., smoother, smoothest, adv., v., n. adj. 1. free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a …   Universalium

• Smooth — (sm[=oo][th]), a. [Compar. {Smoother} (sm[=oo][th] [ e]r); superl. {Smoothest}.] [OE. smothe, smethe, AS. sm[=e][eth]e, sm[oe][eth]e, where [=e], [oe], come from an older [=o]; cf. LG. sm[ o]de, sm[ o]e, sm[ o]dig; of uncertain origin.] 1. Having …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English