Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A valley: galloped over hill and dale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. a valley in an otherwise hilly area.
- n. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
- n. A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an open river valley (in a hilly area)
Etymologies
Examples
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May you be allways happy up hill and down dale, is the wish of your
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Just posting once a week P I comment all the time usuaklly on Iain dale at the moment
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Iain dale and David Cameron found out in Rwanda, you can go a bit too far and then they start laughing.
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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.
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As for Iain dale wanting Livinstone to resign, well, I'm sure Livingstone doesn't think much of Dale either.
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4 Who but Iain dale would know what her plans for her blog were this year?
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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.
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Note the date and time of the above email, which I received yesterday from Iain dale.
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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.
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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.
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