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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 |