Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A valley.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal variant (and earlier form) of dole.
- noun 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.
- noun Nautical, a trough or spout to carry off water, usually named from the office it has to perform: as, a pump-dale, etc.
- noun 3. A hole.
- noun Synonyms Vale, Glen, etc. See
valley .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A low place between hills; a vale or valley.
- noun A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK a
valley in an otherwise hilly area. - noun A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an open river valley (in a hilly area)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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May you be allways happy up hill and down dale, is the wish of your
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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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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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Just posting once a week P I comment all the time usuaklly on Iain dale at the moment
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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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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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4 Who but Iain dale would know what her plans for her blog were this year?
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4 Who but Iain dale would know what her plans for her blog were this year?
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