was kept. It is
connected with the verb to tout, originally to look out

"David dwellide in the tote hil" (Wyc, 2 Sam. v. 9).

We have Dale and its cognate Dell in Swindell (swine), Tindall (Tyne),
Twaddell, Tweddell (Tweed), etc.--

"Mr. H. T. Twaddle announced the change of his name to Tweeddale in
the Times, January 4, 1890" (Bardsley).

Other names for a hill are Fell (Scand.), found in the lake country,
whence Grenfell; and Hough or How (Scand.), as in the north country
names Greenhow, Birchenough.

This is often reduced to -o, as in Clitheroe, Shafto, and is easily
confused with scough, a wood (Scand.), as in Briscoe (birch), Ayscough
(ash).

In the north hills were also called Law and Low, with such compounds
as Bradlaugh, Whitelaw, and Harlow. To these must be added Barrow,
often confused with the related borough (Chapter XIII). Both belong
to the Anglo-Sax. beorgan, to protect, cover. The name Leatherbarrow
means the hill, perhaps the burial mound, of Leather, Anglo-Sax.
Hlothere, cognate with Lothair and Luther.

A hill-top was Cope or Copp. Chaucer uses it of the tip of the
Miller's nose

"Upon the cope right of his nose he hade
A werte, and thereon stood a toft of herys."

(A. 554.)

Another name for a hill-top appears in Peak, Pike, Peck, or Pick, but
the many compounds in Pick-, e.g. Pickbourne, Pickford, Pickwick,
etc., suggest a personal name Pick of which we have the dim. in
Pickett (cf. Fr. Picot) and the softened Piggot. Peak may be in some
cases from the Derbyshire Peak, which has, however, no connection with
the common noun peak. A mere hillock or knoll has given the names
Knapp, Knollys or Knowles, Knock, and Knott. But Knapp may also be
for Mid. Eng. nape, cognate with knave and with Low Ger. Knappe,
squire--

"Wer wagt es, Rittersmann oder Knapp'.
Zu tauchen in diesen Schlund?"

(Schiller, Der Taucher, 1. I.)

Redknap, the name of a Richmond boat-builder, is probably a nickname,
like Redhead. A Knapper may have lived on a "knap," or may have been
one of the Suffolk flint-knappers, who still prepare gun-flints for
weapons to be retailed to the heathen.

Knock and Knocker are both Kentish names, and there is a reef off
Margate known as the Kentish Knock. We have the plural Knox (cf. Bax,
Settlements and Enclosures, Chapter XIII). Knott is sometimes for
Cnut, or Canute, which generally becomes Nutt. Both have got mixed
with the nickname Nott.

A green knoll was a