| 单词 | dale and down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdale and down a. A valley. In the northern counties, the usual name of a river-valley between its enclosing ranges of hills or high land. In geographical names, e.g. Clydesdale, Annandale, Borrowdale, Dovedale, it extends from Lanarkshire to Derbyshire, and even farther south, but as an appellative it is more or less confined to the district from Cumbria to Yorkshire. In literary English chiefly poetical, and in the phrases hill and dale, dale and down. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] deanc825 dalec893 sladec893 bachea1000 valley1297 vall?1611 droke1772 glen1843 nant1862 draw1864 laagte1868 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. iii Þæs dæles se dǽl se þæt flod ne grette ys gyt to-dæg wæstmberende on ælces cynnes blædum. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14568 & wude & feld. & dale & dun. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9203 Nu sket shall illc an dale beon All heȝhedd upp. & filledd. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Hwile uppen cliues and hwile in þe dales. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 Iþe dalen..þu makest wallen to springen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13444 Heo comen..in ane dale deope. c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 85 By dale and eek by doune. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22532, l. 22534 Al þis werld bath dale and dune..þe dals up-rise, þe fells dun fall. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 112 Dale, or vale, vallis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 60 They..rode by hylles and dales. 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 204 Galloway, Carrik, Niddisdaill, Annanderdaill, with the rest of the Daillis in the West. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xiv. 17 The valley of Shaveh, which is the Kings dale [1885 R.V. vale] . View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 110 Where winded into lovely solitudes Runs out the rambling dale. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Linlithgowshire Its surface is finely diversified with hill and dale. 1810 W. Wordsworth Descr. Lakes in J. Wilkinson Select Views p. xx That part of these Dales which runs far up into the mountains. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 208 Till over down and over dale All night the shining vapour sail. View more context for this quotation 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Around Whitby all the valleys are ‘dales’.. There are many smaller dales into which the larger are divided. ‘Deealheead’ is the upper portion of the vale; ‘Deeal end’ being the lower part. < as lemmas |
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