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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and Cuthillhall. The Cuthill and lie Cuthill also occur. Cf. Cuttle- hurst, Yorkshire; Cuttlestone, Stafford; Cuthill, Cornwall. Some of these are probably derived from the cuttling of corn, but certainly not the whole of them. Mains of Deer, called Cuthell, Cuthillhall, Cuthiltown, and the Cuthill must, from the first, have been places of importance. Jamieson gives Cuchil or Cuthil, a forest, grove, or place of residence. His illustrative extracts clearly indicate the sense of the term, but the derivation from W. coedawl, belonging to a forest, is not quite satisfactory. See Scot. Dict., new ed. Daes (Oyne). Daies (Premnay). Daieshillock, obs. (Oyne). Poll Book. These names appear to be contractions of Davach or Daugh, with E. pl. s added. Cf. Dawe, Inverurie. Daies, Premnay, appears in 1678 as the Half of the Dauchs, Ant. III., 400, and in 1633, Davakis, Retour 221. Dail a' Bhoididh (Braemar, 6). Sow's haugh. Dail a' Mhoraire, obs. (Braemar, 6). Earl's field. Dais (Kennethmont). See Daes. Dalachupar (Corgarff). Dail a' chubair, cooper's field. Dalanduie Burn (Cabrach,. 6). Dail an t-suidhe (tuie), field of the seat. Dalbagie (Glengairn). Dalbadgie, Val. Roll and C.S. 1696, Dellbadie, Poll Book; 1688, Dilbaydie, Aberg. pp. Dail bhaite, drowned field, that is, wet, swampy, which part of it still is. Dalbreadie (Monymusk). Dalbraidie, Val. Roll and C.S. Dail braide, field of the upper part or height. Dail braide, field of theft, is possible, but does not quite suit the accent. Dalcheipe, obs. (Glentanner). Neir Glentaner Kirke (says Balfour, 1630-57), where was a ford of the Dee. Dail chip, field of the stump or stake. Cf. Coblestock. Cobleheugh was also near the Kirk of Glentanner, ford or ferry being available,...
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