1 gen 1675 anni - rocher

Descrizione:

A word of French origin, meaning a large rock or a steep rocky place. 1637 <i>very stately Timber ... & they grow out of such a Rocher of stone that you would hardly thinke there were earth enough to nourish the rootes</i>, Sheffield (HSMS3); 1675 <i>Ann Wood ... by reason of a fall she had from a Rotcher ... hath been lame ever since,</i> Wortley (QS1). It continued to be a meaningful term: 1647 <i>stayed all day at the Rocher and got great stones out of the quarry there</i>, Thurlstone (SS65/52); 1651 <i>James Sykes of Lingarthes for cutting wood in the Rotcher 3s 4d</i>, Slaithwaite. It gave rise to a number of minor place-names (PNWR7/236) and one early compound was the source of the surname Gaukroger: 1403 <i>John de Gawkerocher</i>, Halifax (GRDict).

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