toot-hill
(ˈtuːthɪl)
Also 4 tote-, 4–5 tute-, 6–8 tout-hill. Preserved in many forms toot-, tote-, tot-, tut- in place-names.
[ME. tōte-hill, f. toot v.1 (or n.1) + hill.]
A natural or artificial hill or mound used for a look-out place; a prominent hill; = toot n.1 1. (In quot. 1250 a place-name.)
| [1250 Pat. Roll 34 Hen. III, m. 1 Concessimus..quod illa feria que consuevit esse in eorum cimeterio apud West⁓monasterium..fit singulis annis apud Tothull’.] |
| 1382 Wyclif 2 Sam. v. 7 Forsothe Dauid took the tote [v.rr. toot, tute] hil [1388 tour of] Syon; that is the citee of Dauid. ― Isa. xxi. 8 Vpon the toothil of the Lord I am stondende. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 498/1 Tote hylle, or hey place of lokynge, conspicillum. 1483 Cath. Angl. 398/1 A Tute hylle, aruisium montarium. 1532–3 Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees) 181 Pro factura unius muri circa le toythyll 5s. 10d. 1535 Goodly Prymer (1834) 163 Sion by interpretation signifieth a tout-hill, or a place where a man may see far about him. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xviii. viii. 118 A certaine high Barbican or Toot-hill [specula]. 1827 Hodgson Northumbld. ii. 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 Chester Gloss., Toot Hill, prop. name, a steep hill near Alvanley. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumbld. Gloss., 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. |