Teviotdale

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Teviot +‎ dale.

Proper noun[edit]

Teviotdale

  1. The valley of the River Teviot in Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, in which the town of Hawick is located. [1]
  2. By extension, an area covering much of the old county of Roxburghshire.
    • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott:
      How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...
  3. A community on the border of Perth County and Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.

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