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(Cumberland, Northumbria, countable, uncommon, now obsolete outside placenames) A miry bog..
They lived in Flother (as Flodder Hall was formerly known).
[…] the homesteads and hamlets […] of Ryal or Ryehill, Pry, Flothers, Peel-flat, Comb-hills, Swangs, Cocklake, Palmstrothers, Black Strothers, […]
FLODDER BECK (affluent of the Mint in Docker, SD 59 SE), 1857 OS. Probably, like Flodder Hall and Flodder(s) (i, 83, 130, ii, 41, infra), and Brackenber Flodders (ii, 104 infra), from a dial. form of flother, fludder, which may well be from an OE *flōdor 'channel' suggested for the 12th-century Floder (YW iv, 86). […] Flother 1704, 1710 PR, from OE *flōdor 'channel' as in Flodder Beck (i, 7 supra).
[…] Flot(t)erker 1430, Flotter Carr 1580, … 'marsh with or near a water-channel', v. *flōdor, ker, cf. ModE dial flother 'swamp, a boggy place liable to overflow in wet seasons', very common in f.ns. in Northumberland, e.g. Robinson Flothers, Henshaw, […]
[…] flothers […] The Flothers
Flothers, near Slaley […] f. houses and land, Flothers
[…] by a horse Gin and Pit 13 fms. deep (South of Flothers Wood). West of Pilmuir Wood it was also worked by an Engine Pit 11 fms . deep , but the workings were abandoned owing to heavy water , without a plan having been made.
The Flothers, near Slaley, however, takes its name from a Swamp, that is to say where water flows over, [...]
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Flother means (Cumberland, Northumbria, countable, uncommon, now obsolete outside placenames) A miry bog..
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They lived in Flother (as Flodder Hall was formerly known).
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