Etymology

Ossett

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Today it means: A market town with some local industry in West Yorkshire, England, mostly within the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield (OS grid ref SE2720). Full definition →

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The story

From Old English Osleset (“the fold of a man named Osla”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.