Meaning of dale | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Middle English for someone living in a dale.
2. A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
   British
3. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
   archaic
4. A valley: galloped over hill and dale.
5. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
6. A male given name transferred from the surname.
7. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
8. a valley, esp. a broad valley.
9. A female given name transferred from the surname.
10. (Physical Geography) an open valley, usually in an area of low hills
11. A hamlet in Ainstable parish, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5444).
12. (Biography) Sir Henry Hallet. 1875–1968, English physiologist: shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1936 with Otto Loewi for their work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
13. A village and community in west Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8005).
14. Sir Henry Hal•lett (ˈhæl ɪt) 1875–1968, English physiologist.
15. A village in Fjaler, Vestland, Norway.
16. Sir Thomas, died 1619, British colonial governor of Virginia 1614–16.
17. A village in Vaksdal, Vestland, Norway.
18. n (N Engl liter) → Tal nt
    n
19. A village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
20. A woreda in Ethiopia.
21. A community in Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
22. A number of places in the United States:
23. An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Illinois.
24. A township in McLean County, Illinois.
25. A town in Spencer County, Indiana.
26. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana.
27. A township in O'Brien County, Iowa.
28. A township in Kingman County, Kansas.
29. A former community in Tobacco Township, Gladwin County, Michigan.
30. A ghost town in Clay County, Minnesota.
31. A township in Cottonwood County, Minnesota.
32. A township in Atchison County, Missouri.
33. A ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska.
34. A hamlet in Wyoming County, New York.
35. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.
36. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
37. A borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
38. An unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
39. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
40. An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
41. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
42. A town and census-designated place therein, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.

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Examples

“And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields”

“Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, / Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, / Then reached the caverns measureless to man, / And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]”

“The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.”

“Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.”

“The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships.”

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