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Eldridge

Name origin: Old English

Name meaning: Old counsel

Cleaver

Name origin: English

Name meaning: from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.

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