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noun

Dale n.

A low place between hills; a vale or valley. "Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend."

A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

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Etymology of 'Dale'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dale" Quotes from Famous Books

... room for four, I drove the ponies myself. We started just about sundown, and the pleasant coolness of evening came on while there was still daylight enough to light up the constantly changing panorama of hill and dale, and forest and distant river, beyond which the blue mountain range dimly seen, now seemed to emerge into bolder relief, and again to fade ...

— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland

... left the village behind them, and plunged into a wood, which, stretching for miles across hill and dale, was known to be a ...

— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry

... summer of 1798, John Gurney took the whole of his seven daughters an excursion through parts of England and Wales. At Colebrook Dale, where they saw several relatives, members of the Society of Friends, Elizabeth Gurney received the deepest impressions. She was especially struck with the veteran philanthropist, Richard Reynolds, who having made a large fortune in his well-managed iron-works, spent his money ...

— Excellent Women • Various

... Westaway felt a good bit disappointed. He cussed Spider up hill and down dale and poured a torrent of rude words ...

— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts

... have suffered from those people who put back every reform many years—quacks and cranks—for while science, with open mind, was testing this new treatment, the quacks exploited it up hill and down dale. ...

— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs

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