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Dale   /deɪl/   Listen
noun
Dale  n.  
1.
A low place between hills; a vale or valley. "Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend."
2.
A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.





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"Dale" Quotes from Famous Books



... made the streams so wide, That flow through wood and vale; He made the rills so small, That leap down hill and dale. ...
— McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... hill and down dale—I suppose some of them could. I saw their races up at Red Cloud last year, and old Spotted Tail brought over a couple of ponies from Camp Sheridan that ran like a streak, and there was a Minneconjou chief there who had a very fast pony. Some of the young Ogallallas had quick, ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal. In like manner, local custom and prejudice, even local religion and local law, linger on into the latter end of the nineteenth century—imperia in ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... wend with me, To leave both tower and town, Thou first must guess what life lead we 15 That dwell by dale and down. And if thou canst that riddle read, As read full well you may, Then to the greenwood shalt thou speed As blithe as Queen of ...
— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty
... injunction that he was to wait till he had reached his home drew out the root and ate it; and scarce had he done this ere he realized that he possessed the power of uttering the weird and mystic sound to absolute perfection. And as it rang o'er many a hill and dale, and woke the echoes of the distant hills, until it was answered by the solemn owl, he felt that it was indeed wonderful. So he walked on gayly, trumpeting as he went, over hill and vale, ...
— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland


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