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ˈeylebourn dial.
Also nailbourne.
[Of obscure origin; quot. 1480 would suggest that it is f. ail n. trouble, affliction + bourn; but this may be popular etymology.]
(See quots.)
c1480J. Warkworth Chron. 24 [mentions an intermittent stream near St. Albans, called Wemere (interpreted ‘woo watere’), the flowing of which was ‘a tokene of derthe, or of pestylence, or of grete batayle’; and adds:] Also there has ronne dyverse suche other wateres, that betokenethe lykewyse; one at Lavesham in Kent, and another byside Canturbury called Naylborne. 1677Plot Nat. Hist. Oxfordsh. 30 Of these [springs] there are many in the County of Kent, which..they call Nailbournes there. 1719Harris Hist. Kent 174 Such..as in this County they call an Eylebourn; (or vulgarly a Nailbourn) which is a Spring that rises all of a sudden out of the Ground, runs a while like a Torrent and then disappears. Ibid. 240 There is a famous Eylebourn which rises in this Parish and some⁓times runs but a little way..now and then it goes with a very strong Stream. 1727Lewis Faversham 4 The brakish Creek, into which a spring or Nail-bourne from Ospringe falls. 1736in Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.) 38 1887 Parish & Shaw Kent. Dialect (E.D.S.), Eylebourne, Nailbourn, an intermittent spring. |