单词 | dimble |
释义 | dimblen. Obsolete exc. dialect. A deep and shady dell or hollow, a dingle. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > small > and deep deanc825 dell1531 dimble1589 dingle1591 drumble?a1750 1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. B.3 Eccho..That liues in woodes, And rocky ragged tours, and Dales with Dymbles deepe. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 27 Satyres, that in shades and gloomy dimbles dwell. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxviii. 147 Dimbles hid from day. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. viii. 15 in Wks. (1640) III Within a gloomie dimble, shee doth dwell Downe in a pitt, ore-growne with brakes and briars. View more context for this quotation 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Dumblehole; also Drumble, a rough wooded dip in the ground; a dingle. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Dimble, a dingle, dell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1589 |
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