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Dale Valley. 



Dike Ditch also Wall or Mound. 



Foss Force Waterfall. 



Griff Narrow rugged valley. 



Grip Drain or narrow channel. 



Holm Island in a marshy district. 



Hough (pron.Hauf ) Detached hill=Barf. 



How Small round hill. 



Holl Deep or narrow valley. 



Keld Spring. 



Kirk Church. 



Knoll Hill-top. 



Ling Heath the plant. (This word, heath, not used.) 



Mar Mere or lake. 



Marish Marsh. 



Moor A hill. (In other districts it is applied to flat peaty 



grounds.) 



Nab End of a hill. 



Ness Prominent part of the coast, or conspicuous point of 



a hill. 



Plugh (pron. Pluf ) Plough. 



Peak Summit of a sea-cliff. 



Roak Reek Smoke. 



Scrogs Shrubs. 



Scar Very rarely used for a perpendicular cliff; less rarely 



for a flat rocky shore below a cliff. 



Swang Marsh. 



Strand Sea-coast. 



Syke Slow or boggy brook. 



Thwaite Single house or small hamlet. 



Thorp Farm-house or small hamlet. 



Wath A ford (Latin Vadum). 



Warp Sediment from rivers. 



Well A spring. 



Wyke Hollow of the sea-coast ; small bay. 



Whin Furze or Gorse ( Ulex Europeeus) ; also a hard stone. 



Woold Wold, or open hilly surface. 



Yak Oak. 



The words Down, Fell, Fen, and Heath, so common elsewhere, 

 are not used in this district. 



Among the descriptive words used in the west which scarcely 

 occur in the east, we may enumerate 



Man A conspicuous heap of stones. 



Fell High ground. 



Tarn ... A lake. 



