Given name & surname
Witter
“a bleacher, caulker, whitewasher”
Witter is a surname from Middle English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Witter goes back to Middle English whitere, meaning “a bleacher, caulker, whitewasher.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle English Witere, from Middle English whitere (“a bleacher, caulker, whitewasher”), built from English white + -er.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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