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Foul S. — either from fowl, or the dirty water in it. A.-S. 

 f tig el, a fowl, ox fid ^ foul, impure. 



Goal S. — perhaps a boundary. The goal or gole was a pole set 

 up to mark the starting or winning place at races. 0. Fr. tvaule, 

 mod. Fr. gaule, a pole, big rod. Of 0. Low Ger. origin. 0. Fries. 

 walu, a staff. North Friesic waat. Icel. vol/r, a round stick. 

 Goth, walus, a staff. Cf . prov. Engl, wallop, in the sense of beat ; 

 and see toale, in the sense of a 'stripe made by a blow." Skeat. 



Green S. — Suio-Goth. Gronsike, ib. 



Greencomb S. — green valley or hill sike. 



Great Millstone S. — millstone grit sike. 



Greenearth S. and Green hurth S. 



Lodge S. Lodge Gill S. — Lodge, a small house, cottage, 

 cell, &c., from Fr., Low Lat., and Ger. (see Skeat's Etym. Diet.), 

 and Icel: gil, ravine.. 



Mail S.— ? 



Mattergill S. — A.-S. matha, mathu, worms, bugs, maggots? 

 or Icel. mdttr, might, strength, health ? 



Peghorn S. — see Peghob,n. Pacca's corner sike. 



Rayback S. — Fm, rah, A.-S. a roe, and hecc, a beck. See 

 Eatbaok. 



Eavensike Eigg. Icel. hrafn; A.-S. hrcefn, hrefn, the raven. 



Eedcar S. — perhaps a sike leading from a wet place red with 

 iron oxide, or from a scar or scaur. 



Eennygill S. — '^ren, A.-S. rain, or rennan, to run, or ryne, 

 water-course ; or Suio-Goth. ren, boundary post. 



Eough S. Sand S. Seavy S. — rushy sike. See Seavy. 



Slate Sikes — running through beds of shale. 



Wand Hazel S. — sike near which hazels grow, from which 

 wands can be cut, or Suio-Goth. wand, bad? " The term hazel 

 is used in the dale, applied to a very hard vitreous sandstone." 

 Howse. 



Wheel Head S. — at top of the Wheel or Weel. See Wheel. 



Whey S. ? A.-S. liwag, whey. 



Tawd S. — old, ye ahd, or t'(y)ahd sike ? 



Yoke S. ? — two yoked together, two sikes joined. 



