Meaning of Ditton | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A motto or saying.
   Scotland, obsolete
2. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
3. A suburb of Widnes, Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4885).
   countable, uncountable
4. A village in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7158).
   countable, uncountable
5. A suburb of Slough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9978).
   countable, uncountable
6. A habitational surname from Old English.
   countable

Examples

“Nekeb : this is a ditch, where we may conceive Jordan was let out for the more convenient watering of other ground. And have we not more then twenty Dittons or Ditch-tons on the ſame occaſion in England?”

“Theſe Dittons ſerve ofttimes to inſtruct us, what is the true Bearing : Thus the Earle of Glencairn’s Ditton, Fork over fork, ſhowes that his Bearing is a Fork, and not an Epiſscopal Pale, as ſome would have it :[…]”

“Vireſcit vulnere virtus [courage grows strong at a wound], the Motto or Ditton of Steuart Earl of Galloway, is relative to the Creſt, a Pelican vulnered feeding her Young in a Neſt proper; which Figure is an Emblem of our Saviour: And the ſame Figure for Creſt the Steuarts Earls of Murray uſe, with the Motto, Salus per Chriſtum redemptorem [salvation through Christ the redeemer].”

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