Meaning of dell | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.
3. A young woman; a wench.
   obsolete
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
6. A small secluded wooded valley.
7. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
8. An unincorporated community in Faribault County, Minnesota.
9. a small, usu. wooded valley; vale.
10. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11: A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
11. A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
12. An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
13. (Physical Geography) a small, esp wooded hollow
14. A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
15. n → kleines bewaldetes Tal
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Equivalents

Examples

“To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.”

“In dells and dales, conceal'd from human sight.”

“Sweet doxies and dells”

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