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单词 toot-hill
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toot-hilln.

/ˈtuːthɪl/
Forms: Also Middle English tote-, Middle English tute-, 1500s–1700s tout-hill. Preserved in many forms toot-, tote-, tot-, tut- in place-names.
Etymology: Middle English tōte-hill , < toot v.1 (or toot n.1) + hill n.
A natural or artificial hill or mound used for a look-out place; a prominent hill; = toot n.1 1 (In quot. 1250 a place-name.)
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > look-out hill
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place > hill
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1250 Pat. Roll 34 Hen. III m. 1 Concessimus..quod illa feria que consuevit esse in eorum cimeterio apud West~monasterium..fit singulis annis apud ‘Tothull’.]
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxi. 8 Vpon the toothil of the Lord I am stondende.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. v. 7 Forsothe Dauid took the tote [v.rr. toot, tute] hil [a1425 L.V. tour of] Syon; that is the citee of Dauid.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 498/1 Tote hylle, or hey place of lokynge, conspicillum.1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 A Tute hylle, aruisium montarium.1532–3 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 181 Pro factura unius muri circa le toythyll 5s. 10d.1534 tr. G. Savonarola Expos. li. Psalme sig. D.iv Syon by interpretacyon sygnyfyeth a tootehyll, or a place where a man maye se farre aboute hym.1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xviii. viii. 118 A certaine high Barbican or Toot-hill [L. specula].1827 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II I. 286 (note) In a field, a little to the north-east of Hartington, there is a small conical hill, apparently natural, but artificially terraced, which is called the Tote-hill.1886 Chester Gloss. Toot Hill, prop. name, a steep hill near Alvanley.1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tuthill, Tote-hill, an eminence. Of frequent occurrence in place-names. The Tuthill-stairs in Newcastle ascend the eminence (called Tout-hill in Bourne's map, 1736) from The Close to Clavering Place... In old formal gardens a tout-hill was an artificial mound formed for the purpose of commanding a prospect.
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