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Type Surname (from occupation)
Usage German, Dutch

Meaning & History

North German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared shafts for tools or weapons, a turner, from Middle Low German schacht, Middle Dutch scacht ‘shaft’.
Added 5/19/2022 by kammini