Lark

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English

Proper noun

Lark

  1. Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
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  3. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
  4. A female given name from English from the lark bird.
    • 1989 Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin 1989, →ISBN, page 2
      Mama had chosen the name Lark. Lark Browning Erhardt. Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk. Where she got the idea for Lark, I don't know, though one time when I asked, she said that larks flew high and had a happy song.
  5. A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

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