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Remington

REH-mihng-tuhn
name
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A surname, notably borne by the American Western artist Frederic Remington and the Remington Arms company.
"The museum has a wall of Remington bronzes depicting cowboys and horses."
noun
1
A firearm made by the Remington Arms company.
"He kept an old Remington rifle in the gun cabinet."

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In plain EnglishMost commonly refers either to the Remington gun brand or the artist Frederic Remington.

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Remingtons plural

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Etymology

From the English surname Remington, originally from Rimington, meaning roughly "settlement by the boundary stream."

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