[Of uncertain origin: it may be conjecturally connected either with BAND sb.2, or with BANDE = bound, bourne, as separating two valleys or gills; the Welsh bant ‘height’ has also been compared.]
A ridge of a hill; commonly applied in the English Lake district to a long ridge-like hill of minor height, or to a long narrow sloping offshoot from a higher hill or mountain.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XI. x. 63. Him self ascendis the hie band of the hyll.
1869. Peacock, Gloss. Lonsdale Dial., Band, the summit of a minor hill, as ‘Swirl band,’ Tilberthwaite fell.
1872. Jenkinson, Eng. Lakes (1879), 23. The vale head of Langdale is divided by the Band into the Mickleden and Oxendale glens.
