Lockerbie

Meanings

Proper Noun

  • town council area, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland (constituent country).

Noun

Origin

  • From the personal name Lockard + the Old Norse suffix byr 'farm'.
  • Named after the Lockerbie Bombing, a terrorist attack on a plane, which happened above the town of Lockerbie.

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