Underwood definition
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Origin of underwood
- The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood. In both cases the name is from England or Scotland, and from Middle English.
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- The common noun comes from the name of the manufacturer, after John T. Underwood, one of its founders.
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