Yoke Knowes
hill or mountain · Dumfries and Galloway
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · name elements
Yoke Knowes likely refers to hills shaped like a yoke or associated with a yoke. 'Knowe' is a dialectal term for a small hill or mound.
Word origins
- Yoke
- Old EnglishAttestedyoke, pair(from geoc "yoke")
- Knowes
- Old EnglishAttestedhills, mounds(from cnoll "hill, mound")