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Ichabod

American  
[ik-uh-bod] / ˈɪk əˌbɒd /

noun

  1. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “without honor.”


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The Post likened him to Ichabod Crane, the fictional schoolmaster in the Washington Irving short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The school's other statues are mostly modern art, except of a recently installed statue of Ichabod Washburn, an early benefactor and namesake of the school.

From Fox News ● Aug. 31, 2020

The school’s other statues are mostly modern art, except of a recently installed statue of Ichabod Washburn, an early benefactor and namesake of the school.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 27, 2020

Ichabod Cranium: He had something the Headless Horseman really wanted.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2019

He looked like an illustration Longstreet had once seen of Ichabod Crane.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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