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toot-hilln./ˈtuːthɪl/ Etymology: Middle English tōte-hill , < toot v.1 (or toot n.1) + hill n. the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > look-out hill the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place > hill 1250 m. 1 Concessimus..quod illa feria que consuevit esse in eorum cimeterio apud West~monasterium..fit singulis annis apud ‘Tothull’.] a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxi. 8 Vpon the toothil of the Lord I am stondende.1382 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 498/1 Tote hylle, or hey place of lokynge, conspicillum.1483 398/1 A Tute hylle, aruisium montarium.1532–3 in J. Raine (1844) 181 Pro factura unius muri circa le toythyll 5s. 10d.1534 tr. G. Savonarola 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 xviii. viii. 118 A certaine high Barbican or Toot-hill [L. specula].1827 J. Hodgson 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 Toot Hill, prop. name, a steep hill near Alvanley.1894 R. O. Heslop 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.This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1382 |