lEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 3? 



2. A strait hollow between precipitous banks, or a hollow 

 descent on the side of a hill." Jamieson. 



*' Cleugh^ a precipice, synon. with heuch or heugh." Do. 

 Suppl. 



" Gleugh, dough, a ravine, a valley between two precipitous 

 banks, generally having a runner of water at the bottom, a nar- 

 row glen." Brockett. 



" Cleugh, a narrow, rocky glen or ravine. Cf. 0. IS", hleyf, 

 fissura rupium Hald. Sw. Dial, hlov, a breach, gap, chasm, hole 

 or den in the rocks. A.-S. dough, a cleft of a rock. Cf. Pr. Pm. 

 dyff, and Sc. deuch.''^ Atkinson. 



" Clem o' the Cleugh," a famous borderer. 



A Hope, q.v. it may be mentioned, is described among other 

 accounts, as a narrow valley or sloping plain, not rugged, hemmed 

 in at the top, there being no outlet, differing thus from a cleugh, 

 which is a rugged cleft among rocks on a hill side, and may be 

 open at top. 



Examples : — 



Coalcleugh — from A.-S. col, coal, and deofa, cleugh. 



Thorney Cleugh — from A.-S. thorniht, thorny, and deofa. 



High Clove Hill — the high cleft or cloven hill ? 



Catcleugh — in Redesdale. 



Chit. ^ 



Claims a somewhat different origin and application from deugh, 

 meaning a precipice, per se, or even a scar, whilst a cleugh is a 

 fissure among rocks, each side of which may be a. precipice or 

 cliff. 



"We find in Icel. hlif, Ueif, a cliff, hlifra, (or Tclifa, metaphori- 

 cally only) to climb. 



A.-S. dif, dyf, diof, a cliff, rock, steep descent Eosworth. 



Dan. Tclippe ; Suio-Goth. hlippa, scopulus ; Sw.klippa; Ger. 

 Tilippe, Tduft; Dut. hlip ; PI. Uif. 



In Wei. dif, dip, degr, precipice, crag ; Gael, creag, sgor ; 

 Ir. creag ; Manx sher, creg ; Bret, roc'h, karn, Jcerreh ; Corn. 

 degar, rock, cliff, precipice. 



