TEESDAIE PLACE-NAMES. 151 



The coal pits in Belgium are much deeper than those of the 

 Northumberland and Durham coal field. 



" Pot, pott, 1. a pit, dungeon ; 2. a pond full of water, a pool 

 or deep place in a river ; 3. a moss-hole from whence peats have 

 been dug. The deep holes scooped in the rock, by the eddies of 

 a river, are called pots ; the motion of the water therein having 

 some resemblance to that of boiling water in a cauldron. 



"Pete-pot, a hole out of which peats have been dug. 



" Pot is from Teut. put, lacus, lacus palustris, or as the same 

 with Engl, pit, from Teut. put, putte, puteus, lacuna ; Barb. Lat. 

 putt-a. 



"DuCange derives Barb. 'LoX. pet-a, a peat, from Teut. ^e^ vel 

 put, lacus, &c., ^^Qdi. paata, pronounced j^o^«, fodere." Jamieson. 



"Pot, pott, a pond, a pool, add to the etymon given to pete- 

 pot that Sax. put is given by Kilian as synonymous with poel, 

 and explained as lacuna, palm. 4. a shaft or pit in a mine." lb. 

 Suppl. 



" Pit and pot are the past tense and past participle of the verb 

 to pit, i.e., to excavate, to sink in a hollow." H. Tooke. 



" Any thing or place hollowed out." Kichardson. 



There are many ^o^s in south-west Yorkshire in the limestone 

 region north-east of Clapham, some are very deep, and communi- 

 cate at the bottom with underground passages for bodies of 

 water. 



Examples : — 



Coal Pits and Lead Mines. 



Conny Pot — ought to have been Coney Pot =: rabbit hollow. 

 Bell. Conny, in West Riding, stands for canny, pretty, bonny. 



Dodgen Pot — Dodgen's Pot or hollow. 



King's Pot. HellenPot. Hull Pot. Hurke Pot. 



Settle Pot — hollow overgrown with nettles. 



Eavock. 



Ravock Mire. " E,aver=rive ; 'okrrhock (the li is omitted in 

 Yorkshire) or hough. Mire=mere, bog ; hence Eave -hock-mere 

 =Tear-hough-sinew bog." Bell. A derivation which could only 



