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north-end
[OE. norðende, f. norð north adv.; cf. MDu. nortende, Du. noordeinde, G. nordende. In later use f. north a., and properly unhyphened, except when used attributively.]
1. The northern end or extremity of anything.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxix. §3 Hi sint swa neah þam norðende þære eaxe þe eall þes rodor on hwerfð. 971Blickl. Hom. 93 Seo eorþe on þæm norþ-ende & on þam east-ende sprecaþ him betweonum. c1205Lay. 12729 Heo habbeoð of ure londe al þene norð ende. a1352Minot Poems ix. 3 Þe north end of Ingland teched him to daunce. 1641in Nalson Impart. Collect. (1683) II. 399 At the North⁓end of the Table so standing Altar-wise. 1707[see northermost]. 1840Origines Par. Scotiae I. 327 Near the north end of the present parish. 1861F. Metcalfe Oxonian in Iceland v. (1867) 81 Occupying what I believe to have been once the north end of the lake.
attrib.1902Protest. Observer Sept. 131/1 The Archbishop of Canterbury very properly took the North-end position at the Table.
b. (See quot.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 175 North End, the rise side of the coal in North Yorkshire.
†2. The north of England. Obs.
c1100O.E. Chron. (MS. D) an. 1052, Man bead þa folce þider ut ofer ealne þisne norðende. c1205Lay. 28982 Þa wunede bi-ȝeonde þere Hunbre..in þan norð ende drenches sume sixe. c1300Havelok 734 In humber grim bigan to lende, In lindesaye, Rith at þe north ende. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 32 Alle þe north ende was in his kepyng, & alle þe South ende tille Edmund þei drouh. |