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n. An uncommon topographical English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin; derived from ancestors who lived "by the water".
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Bywater is an uncommon English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin and can most frequently be found in the English region of Yorkshire. It is a topographical surname given to those who were situated near a body of water.
Usage examples of "bywater".
Major Shee, fortified by arrack and satisfied that everything was in proper order, nodded to Bywaters.
Sometimes, later on, when he had finished his chump chop and she had finished her bowl of porridge or village-idiot cereal, he would go on reading Man of his Words: The Life and Times of Ingram Bywater and she would go on reading Budgeting for Belgium, as the tap dripped and the strip-light fizzed like a fat flyand they would yawn together.
I wandered a little until I found a quiet bywater of a hall not too far away.
What had Sergeant Major Bywaters said as he had thrust the leather gag into Sharpe's mouth?
At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of the Brandywine Bridge in broad daylight.
Ser Boros had been escorting Tommen and Lord Gyles when Ser Jacelyn Bywater and his gold cloaks had surprised them, and had yielded up his charge with an alacrity that would have enraged old Ser Barristan Selmy as much as it did Cersei.