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(in form Smiddy Lime) (the name of) a bed of limestone underlying Alston Moor in Cumbria.
Geology. = skull-cap, n. 4. Cf. cap rock n. at cap, n.1 compounds 2. Obsolete.
English regional (northern). A stratum, esp. of limestone, within stratified rock.