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Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.