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dell

[del]
noun
a small, usually wooded valley; vale.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English delle, Old English dell; akin to dale

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  • Dell announced it would no longer rely on federal prisons to supply workers for its computer recycling program.
  • We've ridden down a narrow dell to the edge of an aspen-ringed meadow, where a quarter-mile of sunstruck pasture beckons.
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Dell

[del]
noun
a male or female given name.

dell'

[del]
(in names of Italian derivation) an elided form of della: Giovanni dell' Anguillara.

dells

[delz]
plural noun

Origin:
by construal as a plural of dell
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dell (dɛl)
 
n
a small, esp wooded hollow
 
[Old English; related to Middle Low German delle valley; compare dale]

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dell
O.E. dell (perhaps lost and then borrowed in M.E. from cognate M.Du./M.L.G. delle), from P.Gmc. *daljo, related to dale. Uncertain relationship to dell, rogue's cant 16c.-17c. for "a young girl of the vagrant class." "A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the
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vpright man. ... [W]hen they have beene lyen with all by the vpright man then they be Doxes, and no Dells" [Thomas Harman, "A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors," 1567].
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