Shittim may mean several different things: Botany. Shittim, the plural of Shittah, which is Hebrew for wood from the acacia tree, which appears in the Bible Places.
Vinokur Name Meaning. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): occupational name for a distiller, Russian vinokur, from vino 'wine', earlier used also to denote liquor of all kinds, including spirits, + kurit 'to distil'.
Thornton Name Meaning. English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English þorn 'thorn bush' + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement'. Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin 'son of Sceachán' (see Skehan).
