APPENDIX C 



GLOSSARY OF DEVONSHIRE TERMS 



Bottom : See Goyal. 



cutter (or Clatter) : An irregular heap of granite boulders. 

 Glitters are found mostly on hillsides and are said to be the 

 result of decay of the Tors (q.v.). 



Coombe : A valley between two steep hills. 



Cry of the river : A striking effect produced by the sound 

 of rushing water peculiar to the Dart. The Rev. S. Baring- 

 Gould quotes the following couplet : 



" The Dart, the Dart— the cruel Dart 

 Every year demands a heart." 



And the river is represented as crying for its prey. 



Forest : Dartmoor was once, like Exmoor, a Royal Forest, 

 i.e. a place where beasts of forest were preserved for the King. 

 The term does not imply the existence of trees (e.g. Scotch 

 deer forest). Dartmoor is still spoken of as a forest, though 

 no longer such legally, it having passed into private hands. 



Flying-fence : A term used to distinguish a hedge or 

 other fence that a horse clears in his stride, from a bank on 

 which he alights before jumping off it. 



Goyal (or Goyle) : The washed-out bed of an old stream or 

 torrent at the bottom of a valley or coombe. 



In-country : All country other than moorland. 



Linhay : A shed. 



Newtake : A piece of land taken in from the moor or open 

 commons and enclosed with a wall or other fence. 



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