dale
Other forms: dales
A dale is a valley, a wide, open area that stretches between hills. Some dales have rivers or streams flowing through them, while others are covered in grasses or other plants.
When a geologist describes something as a dale or a valley, it is typically a low area that's longer than it is wide, and bordered on at least two sides by hills or mountains. Dales with rivers are often called "vales," while a very small dale is sometimes called a "hollow," pronounced "holler" in rural Appalachia. Dale comes from the Old English word for "valley," dæl.
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an open river valley (in a hilly area)
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People's first names have meaning in the sense that, when one is chosen from thousands of possibilities, it's usually picked because it has some special significance. But these names have another kind of meaning — they're also words that you can look up in the dictionary and use in other senses, beyond just what you've decided to call your pet parakeet or your first child.
As you read Eddy Harris's "Mississippi Solo," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 3: Mississippi Solo, The Tempest, Allied with Green, Big Rocks' Balancing Acts, poems about nature
