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Meaning of Dally | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈdæli

Definitions

  1. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
  2. A surname.
  3. A New Zealand person of Croatian or other Balkan descent.
    New-Zealand, colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.”
“We have known Mazagon and long-pod Beans to be thrown out of a dally, because they were full of seed!”
“The New Zealand wine industry and those who consume the wine it produces owe a huge debt of gratitude to the "Dallies" – the Croatians, and others from that part of eastern Europe who came here in the early 1900s and brought with them a passion for growing, making and drinking wine.”

CEFR level

C2
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