Etymology

Walbottle

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Today it means: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1766). Full definition →

Middle English wal ← Old English botl
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  1. Old English · derived frombotl
  2. Middle English · derived fromwal
  3. English todayWalbottle

Recorded in 1176 as Walbotl, presumably from Middle English wal + Old English botl, a building on Hadrian's Wall.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishwal all →

wall

Old Englishbotl all →

bottlebodle

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.