ELDRIDGE

ELDRIDGE. Perhaps local. Eldndge, clriche, or elrltch, is, however, a medieval Avord signifying "wild, hideous, ghastly, lonesome, uninhabited except by spectres." Gloss, to Percy's Reliques, edit. 1839. In the ballad of Sir Cauline is a description of an " eldridge knight." The fair Christabelle sends her lover on a perilous errand, but forewarns him —

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.