Teviotdale

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proper noun

The valley of the River Teviot in Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, in which the town of Hawick is located.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. The valley of the River Teviot in Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, in which the town of Hawick is located.
  2. By extension, an area covering much of the old county of Roxburghshire.

    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...

    1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott
  3. A community on the border of Perth County and Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
  4. A surname.

Origin

From Teviot + dale.

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APA

Teviotdale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teviotdale

MLA

“Teviotdale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teviotdale. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Teviotdale,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teviotdale.

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