Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word AKELEY

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Definitions of AKELEY

1. (uncountable) A placename:
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

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Examples of Using AKELEY in a Sentence

• Walker had intended to build the mill in what would later become Walker, Minnesota, but chose Akeley instead because of his wife's disapproval of the bars and brothels in the Walker area.
• Walker instead chose to found and set up operations in nearby Akeley, because of his wife's moral objection to the bars and brothels in Walker, a rough frontier town.
• Oakley's name has been variously spelt through the ages (parenthesised dates denote earliest occurrence): Achelei (1086); Akeley (12th century), Aclei, Acle, Ocle (13th century); Ocle iuxta Brehull (14th century); and Whokeley (16th century).
• Women explorers in Africa: Christina Dodwell, Delia Akeley, Mary Kingsley, Florence von Sass Baker, and Alexandrine Tinne, Margo McLoone (Capstone Press, 1997).
• Back in New York, Carl Akeley spent his time raising money for the museum, sculpting models for his dioramas, and becoming better acquainted with Mary Lenore Jobe (1878–1966), a former debutante and Bryn Mawr graduate who had become an African explorer and ethnographer.
• Shotcrete is usually an all-inclusive term for both the wet-mix and dry-mix versions invented by Akeley.
• Lupoff also proposes that Akeley was the illegitimate son of Abednego Akeley, a minister for a Vermont sect of the Starry Wisdom Church, and Sarah Phillips, Abednego's maidservant.
• In 1890, Carl Akeley, a taxidermist and biologist noted as the "father of modern taxidermy," completed the first complete museum habitat diorama in the world, depicting a muskrat colony.
• Maxwell's pioneering diorama displays are said to have influenced major figures in taxidermy history who entered the field later, such as William Temple Hornaday and Carl Akeley (the father of modern taxidermy).
• Smaller (although still larger than life) statues can also be found in Akeley, Bemidji, and Brainerd, Minnesota; Manistique and Ossineke, Michigan; Muncie, Indiana; Aberdeen, South Dakota; and Lakewood, Wisconsin and Wabeno Wisconsin.
• Together with Delia Akeley, Mary Kingsley, Florence Baker, and Alexine Tinne, she was one of the five subjects of a book by Margo McLoone published that year, Women explorers in Africa (1997).
• By the early part of the twentieth century, following the termination of Ward's Society of American Taxidermists, individuals such as Akeley, Hornaday, and Leon Pray had refined techniques and begun emphasizing artistry.
• The original endowment consisted of the manors of Great Horwood, Newton Longville, Whaddon and Akeley, with their churches; tithes of other lands, fishpools and woods, and free pasture for stock, as well as all the monks might need for building purposes.

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