110 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



cherry holts, osier holts, nut holts, A.-S. holt, sylva. E. Angl. 

 Vocab. 



Hurst appears to be a Teutonic-Saxon word ; it does not occur 

 in the sense of wood, grove, &c. in Bosworth or Lye. In Engl, 

 it is wood, and, though not always, on rising ground, or barren 

 places. 



Holt is Icel. and Suio-Gothic. 



Neither hurst nor holt is found in the modern Scand. tongues, 

 or in the Latin languages, except the barbarous Latin, which 

 has hursta, borrowed fi'om the Northerns, or in the Celtic dialects. 



Examples : — 



High Hurst, Low Hurst, and Lang Hurst — perhaps spelt 

 hurst instead of hirst, by South country surveyors. 



Brocken Hurst — h. or wood of the badger. There is Brocken- 

 hurst in the New Forest. 



Hush. 



Erom the noise made by a body of water suddenly let out of a 

 reservoir and rushing down a stony rough hillside. In lead- 

 mining, water is used to be pent up in a reservoir, and at certain 

 times let loose to wash away the stones, sand, &c., so as to ex- 

 pose the ore. The water thus released brings to the river into 

 which it falls metallic lead and salts cf it, which are very 

 inimical to fish and man. 



" Can this be as Wash, a form of the Keltic wysg, or uisge, 

 water. I seem to remember when I stayed at Helwith as a 

 child, the beck was sometimes made muddy by the lead- washing 

 at Hurst, and that then [people said the hush had come down." 

 E. Gr. See Streatfeild's Lincolns. and Danes, chap. x. 



" The terms flash, swang, hog, and wass indicate wet land, and 

 are kindred terms to a certain extent. The term wass may be 

 considered obsolete, and that of flask nearly so." Egglestone's 

 Weardale Names, p. 78. 



" An excavation made by digging and loosening the earth, 

 and carrying off the stones and dirt by sudden flushings." Bell. 



Hush is an English local onomatopoetic word. 



