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din·gle    Audio Help   [ding-guhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a deep, narrow cleft between hills; shady dell.
[Origin: 1200–50; ME: a deep dell, hollow; akin to OE dung dungeon, OHG tunc cellar]
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n.   A small wooded valley; a dell.


[Middle English, dell, hollow.]

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dingle 
"deep dell or hollow, usually wooded," c.1240, of unknown origin; a dialectal word until it entered literary use 17c.

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dingle

noun
a small wooded hollow [syn: dell] 

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