144 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



in the evening. To hopple an animal, is to tie its forefeet to- 

 gether so as to prevent it straying. 



Nine Ceeases. 



The nine foldings, or ridges and hollows. Bell. 



In Northumberland, along the Eoman wall, above Halt- 

 whistle, we have "The nine nicks o'Thirlwell," — gaps in the 

 ridge of basaltic hills along which the wall extends. 



Crease ; Bret, hriz, a wrinkle, crease in skin or robe, possibly 

 from Lat. crispus. 



Oknellt. 

 "Orne'sLand." Bell. 



Palliaed. 



" A beggar — applied to a place it probably signifies a beggarly 

 place." Bell. 



Suio-Goth. "^flf/?, scamnum," a bench. Ihre. 



In Cleasby, under ^<5j//r, the etymology of which word he says 

 is uncertain, as also the time when and the place whence it was 

 borrowed, we find, " The word itself is like pall, probably from 

 the Itdiim palus^ ^»/a=:stipes, Du Cange , Engl, pale, palings ; in 

 the Icel. it is used of high steps (tat. gradus), especially of any 

 high floor or dais in old dwellings, and the benches {helcher) of 

 the Hall-. — mid-pallr, the middle bench; kroTc-pallr, the corner 

 bench. Skida's Eima, (where the beggar littered himself)." 



There is also in A.-S. pal, a pale or stake, and^«//, a pall or 

 cloak. 



'• In modem usage the sitting-room is called th.Q pallr, from 

 being elevated a yard or two above the level ground." Cleasby. 



Is pallr the origin of our parlour, or is it from the French 

 parloir ? A French author in Littre writes : " II y des parloirs 

 dans presque toutes les maisons Angiaises." 



In Halliwell, '^palliard is a born beggar ;" and according to 

 the "Fraternitye of Vacabondes," 1575, " palliard is he that 



