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dell

  [del]
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–noun
a small, usually wooded valley; vale.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME delle, OE dell; akin to dale

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
dalles.
Origin:
by construal as a pl. of dell

dalles

  [dalz]
–plural noun
the rapids of a river running between the walls of a canyon or gorge.
Also, dells.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; < CanF, pl. of F dial. (Normandy) dalle lit., sink ≪ Gmc; cf. OE dæl dale
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dell   (děl)   
n.  A small secluded wooded valley.

[Middle English del, from Old English dell.]
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Dell

Dell\, n. [AS. del, akin to E. dale; cf. D. delle, del, low ground. See Dale.]

1. A small, retired valley; a ravine.

In dells and dales, concealed from human sight. --Tickell.

2. A young woman; a wench. [Obs.]

Sweet doxies and dells. --B. Jonson.
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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 ... by the vpright man" [Thomas Harman, 1567].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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