Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A valley: galloped over hill and dale.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vale; specifically, a space of level or gently sloping or undulating ground between hills of no great height, with a stream flowing through it.
- n. Nautical, a trough or spout to carry off water, usually named from the office it has to perform: as, a pump-dale, etc.
- n. 3. A hole.
- n. Synonyms Vale, Glen, etc. See valley.
- n. A dialectal variant (and earlier form) of dole.
Wiktionary
- n. a valley in an otherwise hilly area.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
- n. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an open river valley (in a hilly area)
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English dæl.
Examples
“May you be allways happy up hill and down dale, is the wish of your”
“Just posting once a week P I comment all the time usuaklly on Iain dale at the moment”
“Iain dale and David Cameron found out in Rwanda, you can go a bit too far and then they start laughing.”
“This is not quite the Iain dale position which to me is unduly nationalistic (calls for a full seperate English parliament), a most un-English trait.”
“As for Iain dale wanting Livinstone to resign, well, I'm sure Livingstone doesn't think much of Dale either.”
“4 Who but Iain dale would know what her plans for her blog were this year?”
“May. 19th, 2010 10: 37 pm (UTC) i sincerely hope that alan dale is in the running for tywin. his gravelly voice (along with his GRAVITAS!) is exactly what i picture for the lion of lannister. the fact that he's older isn't much of a problem IMO because a) he looks younger than his age and b) many in the series are being aged up anyways.”
“Note the date and time of the above email, which I received yesterday from Iain dale.”
“Blocking up the head of the dale are the spurs of Dodd and Widdale Fells, while beyond them appears the blue summit of Bow Fell.”
“Near the entrance to the dale is a tall column erected on Langholm Hill, some twelve miles to the north of the Gretna Green station of the Caledonian Railway, -- which many travellers to and from Scotland may have observed, -- a monument to the late Sir John Malcolm, Governor of Bombay, one of the distinguished natives of the district.”
The Life of Thomas Telford
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dale’.
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Boys Names
List of Boys names
danny, daniel, bobby, robert, chris, christopher, dan, bob, rob, jeff, jeffery, jeffrey and 105 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also First Names.
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 164 more...
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Water always flows downhill
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
swale, hollow, creek, crick, depression, holler, draw, ditch, corrie, cwm, continental divide, stream and 66 more...
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