56 TEESDAXE rLACE-NAMEa. 



Examples : — 



Brier Dykes — probably a place where there are hedges with, 

 or made of, briars. 



Fell Dykes — probably stone walls, which are common on the 

 fells. 



We have Cramer Dykes in Gateshead, and Higham Dykes in 

 Northumberland. 



DOD. DODD. 



This place-name is not found in Lye or Bosworth, or in Moeso- 

 Goth. or Suio-Goth. Glossaries. 



'■'■ Boddy^ doddit, without horns. Phillips gives dodded as an 

 old English word, rendering it unhorned ; also lopped, as a tree 

 having the branches cut off." Jamieson. 



" Bodd, Cumbria, a mountain with a round summit, as Dodd 

 Fell— Great Dodd." Taylor. 



" To dodd, to cut off the wool of sheep's tails, to lop or cut off 

 anything, as the branch of a tree. 



Dodded, without horns. Dodded corn, corn without beards." 

 Halliwell and Brockett. 



'^ Boddyd, wythe-owte hornyesse." Prompt. Parv. 



" Doddy, low in stature, diminutive in person; probably from 

 the common vulgarism hoddy-doddy; as we also shorten hod- 

 mandod — a shell snail, to hodman." Yocab. E. Angl. 



'^ Doddy, dodt, without horns." Engl. Dial. Soc. Oxfordsh. 

 Supplement. 



" A dodded tuppe — :you may know him best by the brantnesse, 

 i.e. steepness, height of his forehead, which appeareth high and 

 sharp in the space betwixt eyebrow and the nose gristles ; but 

 in an ewe or wether seemeth low and flatte." Best's Farming 

 Book, 1641. Surtees Soc, 1857. 



" Dodd, dodden, E. from Doddo, Earl of Mercia; the name still 

 survives as Dodd. Examples, 23 places all in Mercia." F. Ed- 

 munds' Traces of History of Names, &c. Yocab. 



" Dodd, hill. The word is also used as a term of locality in 

 the south-eastern part of Scotland. The Dodds and Doddses — 



