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  • noun A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.
  • proper noun A surname.

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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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