Quickstavers

1) A place-name in Sowerby near Halifax. It means ‘live stakes’ and was evidently a location where such stakes had taken root.

1515-6 apud Whykstaver. ‘Whick’ is the dialect form of ‘quick’ in the sense of 'living'.

dates 1515-1516

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