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Cold Harbour is , Gahvad , at arfau , which he says means " a . call to arms , " H . J ., in the same volume , page 494 , agrees to the word being Welsh , but says it is Cail ervawr , " the great fold . " My friend Dr . Rimbault suggests that the word is Caerberlarber . —( Motes and Queries . )
Mr . Francis Crossley , in denial of Dr . Rimbault , says it is Old arbhar . —( Notes and Queries . ) Each of the six Celtic etymologies is different , and of different meaning . Second—as to Latin etymologies / Admiral Smyth , in a communication to the Society of Antiquaries , printed in the Archceologia , says that Cold Harbours being in the ; neighbourhood of Roman roads , have derived their name from the tortuous movements of the coluber ^
as the roads which lead up to the Cold Harbours diverge and wind from the main viaria . ( Admiral W . H . Smyth , Archceologia , xxxiii ., page 125 . ) Mr . Benjamin Williams , in a communication to the Society of Antiquaries , in 1851 , says that Cold Harbour is cudina , a place where Roman funereal repasts were cooked . Third—as to English etymologies . Lye , in his Saxon dictionary , defines Here-berga exercitus , mansio , statio militaris , tentorium , eastrum .
Junius , in his Elymologicum , defines it receylacidum exercitus . Somner , in his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary , states the like . Sir R . 0 . Hoare , already quoted ; Mr . Fosbrooke , in his "Encyclopaedia of Antiquities / ' p . 520 ; and Mr . Hartshorne , already quoted , adhere to these definitions . Dr . Bosworth , in his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary , defines the word " a station or standing , where the army rested on their inarch , a harbour , chancer , herborow , sumner . " .
All the Anglo-Saxon authorities agree as to the meaning of the Avord Harbour , but the meaning of Cold has not been defined by most of them . By some it is attested to mean simply " bleak . " Mr . Hartshorne gives to it the meaning " open , exposed . " Mr . Wedgwood , in the second volume of the Philological Society ' s Reports , states , that the word is Coal Harbour , because the word Coal Harbour , in the Tower of London , is Used by Pepys , in his Diary > with
the meaning of a coal store . The Rev . Mr . Monkhouse , B . D ., F . S . A ., Fellow of Queen ' s College , Oxford , and vicar of Golding , has published a lecture on Bedfordshire Etymologies , and a tract on Cold Harbours , which latter was read before the Bedfordshire Architectural ancl Archaeological Society , Nov . 13 , 1856 . He states that the word is Cold Pleortbur , "the stag ' s bower , or hiding place , a place of cool shelter in hot w eather . " Fourth—as to the occupation or destination of these Cold Harbours . It will be seen , that those who adhere to English etymologies , hold
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Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topog...
Cold Harbour is , Gahvad , at arfau , which he says means " a . call to arms , " H . J ., in the same volume , page 494 , agrees to the word being Welsh , but says it is Cail ervawr , " the great fold . " My friend Dr . Rimbault suggests that the word is Caerberlarber . —( Motes and Queries . )
Mr . Francis Crossley , in denial of Dr . Rimbault , says it is Old arbhar . —( Notes and Queries . ) Each of the six Celtic etymologies is different , and of different meaning . Second—as to Latin etymologies / Admiral Smyth , in a communication to the Society of Antiquaries , printed in the Archceologia , says that Cold Harbours being in the ; neighbourhood of Roman roads , have derived their name from the tortuous movements of the coluber ^
as the roads which lead up to the Cold Harbours diverge and wind from the main viaria . ( Admiral W . H . Smyth , Archceologia , xxxiii ., page 125 . ) Mr . Benjamin Williams , in a communication to the Society of Antiquaries , in 1851 , says that Cold Harbour is cudina , a place where Roman funereal repasts were cooked . Third—as to English etymologies . Lye , in his Saxon dictionary , defines Here-berga exercitus , mansio , statio militaris , tentorium , eastrum .
Junius , in his Elymologicum , defines it receylacidum exercitus . Somner , in his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary , states the like . Sir R . 0 . Hoare , already quoted ; Mr . Fosbrooke , in his "Encyclopaedia of Antiquities / ' p . 520 ; and Mr . Hartshorne , already quoted , adhere to these definitions . Dr . Bosworth , in his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary , defines the word " a station or standing , where the army rested on their inarch , a harbour , chancer , herborow , sumner . " .
All the Anglo-Saxon authorities agree as to the meaning of the Avord Harbour , but the meaning of Cold has not been defined by most of them . By some it is attested to mean simply " bleak . " Mr . Hartshorne gives to it the meaning " open , exposed . " Mr . Wedgwood , in the second volume of the Philological Society ' s Reports , states , that the word is Coal Harbour , because the word Coal Harbour , in the Tower of London , is Used by Pepys , in his Diary > with
the meaning of a coal store . The Rev . Mr . Monkhouse , B . D ., F . S . A ., Fellow of Queen ' s College , Oxford , and vicar of Golding , has published a lecture on Bedfordshire Etymologies , and a tract on Cold Harbours , which latter was read before the Bedfordshire Architectural ancl Archaeological Society , Nov . 13 , 1856 . He states that the word is Cold Pleortbur , "the stag ' s bower , or hiding place , a place of cool shelter in hot w eather . " Fourth—as to the occupation or destination of these Cold Harbours . It will be seen , that those who adhere to English etymologies , hold