DOWER. This surname may be from Dower in Crowan (there is Dower Park in St. Kew), named from some pool or standing water (dour, water). The Prompt. Parv. renders the word dower, a rabbit's burrow, cuniculus.
DOWERINGE. From dower-ick, the watery place. Hence perhaps the surnames Dowrige and Dowrick. Cf. Dower.
DOWICK. From dow-ick, probably for dower-ick, the place by the water. Dew-ick would signify the dark place.
DOWRICK, DOWRIGE. See Doweringe.
DRAIN. See Trehane.
DREADON. From dre-don, the dwelling on the hill; or dreath-don, the hill of gravel or sand.
DRIGG. See Trigg.
DUGGAR. From dew-car, the black rock; or Du-car, the God's rock.
DUGGUA. From dew-gwy, the dark stream.
DULASTON. From dow-glas-ton, the hill by the green water.
DUNCLAF. From dun-calf, the bald or bare hill.
DUNDAGELL. Hals, citing Carew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 44, says "Dundagell (alias Dyngagell, alias Bosithney) gave name and original to an old family of gentlemen surnamed De Dundagell, now extinct, of which family was Robert de Dundagell, who, temp. Rich. I., held in this county, by the tenure of knight service, five knight's fees." He says also that the name Dundagell means safe, secure, impregnable, or invincible man; or a man so fortified, magnified, or fenced by art or nature that he was not liable to hurt or danger, referring perhaps to the King or Earl of
