Dart

Meanings

Proper Noun

• river Devon (county) England (constituent country), which flows from Dartmoor to the English Channel at Dartmouth.
• town Ontario (province) Canada (country)

Noun

• An officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.

Origin

• From Proto-Brythonic *dar ("oak"). Cognate to the Darent.
• Metonymic occupational surname for a maker of darts, from Middle English dart.