130 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



^'- Melle, or mell, to meddle with, to fight, to contend with." 

 Halliwell. 



" Thoo'd bettur nut mell wi'd." ISTewcastle Dialect. 

 " Mell, to intermeddle, to engage in, to interfere with. 

 Mell Boor, the space between the heck aud outer door, the 

 entry or passage — middle (of) doors. Pr. milieu. Mell is an 

 old word for letioeen, not altogether disused." Brockett. 



" Amell-doors, doors between the outer door and that of an 

 inner room." Atkinson's History of Cleveland. 



Mell Supper. Q,uere mill, or kern, or corn, or quorn, or quern 

 supper, from the first corn ground being used at it. 



" Amell, (umel), prep., between six and seven." Engl. Dial. 

 Soc, E. Yorkshire. 



" Mell, in local names is sometimes mill and sometimes mall, 

 a boundary, but, as Munford says, " half-a-dozen etymons might 

 be proposed for this common initial syllable in local names." 

 Local Names in Norfolk, p. 123. E. G. 



" Mell Waters, A.-S., mal-waters. The meeting place of 

 waters." Bell. 

 Examples : — 



Mell Eell, Intermediate, or Middle Fell — or " from the weird 

 Scandinavian giantess, Mella, who, when tired of the company 

 of Skratti (or Old Skrat) the demon, had a separate abode on Mell 

 Eell; unless indeed this name be Celtic rather than Scandinavian, 

 and allied to the word mull, a headland, which we have in the 

 Mull of Cantyre, and other names, {e.g. the Island of Mull) ; or 

 the name may be connected with the Icel. melr, sandhills, links. 

 There is a Moelifell in Ireland." Taylor. 



Mell Waters, East and West — Mell Waters may be either 

 Mill Waters, or the place where waters mix or join together. 



"At Erosterley, in Weardale, there are Mill Eahs and Mell 

 Butts, the butts at the mill." Eggiestone. 



Mere. Miee. 



Icel. "myrr, mod. tnyri, (Engl, moor and mire), a moor, bog, 

 swamp; marr, (TJlf. marei= OdXacra-a ; A.-S. mere; Hel. and 0. 



