 | Richard Stephen Charnock - 1859 - 356 ページ
...occurrence iu local names in Lan250 LOCAL ETYMOLOGY. cashire and Westmoreland ; as Witherslack, &c. " Slack, slak, slake, an opening in the higher part...pass between two hills or mountains." (Jamieson.) SLADE, in Staffordshire, means moorland ; some say a slope, " a valley, ravine, plain." (Haliwell.)... | |
 | Richard Stephen Charnock - 1859 - 784 ページ
...LaujM. 250 LOCAL ETYMOLOGY". cashire and Westmoreland ; as Witherslack, &c. " Slack, slak, »lake, an opening in the higher part of a hill or mountain,...pass between two hills or mountains." (Jamieson.) SLADE, in Staffordshire, means moorland ; some say a slope, " a valley, ravine, plain." (Haliwell.)... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1860 - 540 ページ
...always went by the name of Slack." 2. A topographical word thus variously denned by Jamieson : " i. An opening in the higher part of a hill or mountain,...where it becomes less steep, and forms a sort of pass. ii. A gap or narrow pass between two hills or mountains, iii. A morass." SLADE. This word has been... | |
 | John Jamieson - 1879 - 912 ページ
...used in this sense. V. SLATE, v. SLAK, SLACK. SLAKE, s. 1. An opening in the higher part i>f the same hill or mountain, where it becomes less steep, and forms a sort of pass, S. idea ; as the latter inoro properly signifies a dell or larger opening between distinct mountains.... | |
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Slack, slak, slake, an opening in the higher part of a hill or mountain, where it becomes less steep, and forms a sort of pass ; a gap or narrow pass between two hills or mountains. 