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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
George \George\, n. [F. George, or Georges, a proper name fr
Gr ? husbandman, laborer; ge`a, gh^, the earth + ? to work
akin to E. work See {Work}.]
1. A figure of St George (the patron saint of England) on
horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the
Garter. See {Garter}.
2. A kind of brown loaf. [Obs.] --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
George
n : Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the
legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a
dragon and saved a princess (?-303) [syn: {George}, {Saint
George}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
George, IA (city, FIPS 30225)
Location: 43.34169 N, 96.00270 W
Population (1990): 1066 (512 housing units)
Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51237
George, NC
Zip code(s): 27897
George, WA (town, FIPS 26455)
Location: 47.07859 N, 119.85597 W
Population (1990): 253 (101 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
GEORGE
Charles Hamblin, 1957. One of the earliest programming
languages, stack-oriented, used reverse Polish notation.
Implemented on the English Electric DEUCE. "GEORGE: A
Semi-Translation Programming Scheme for the DEUCE, Programming
and Operations Manual", C. L. Hamblin, U New S Wales (1958).
"Computer Languages", C.L. Hamblin, Aust J Sci 20(5):135-139
(Dec 1957) and Aust Comp J 17(4):195-198 (Nov 1985).
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