Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The rapids of a river.
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- noun Plural form of
dell .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Before us the dells are abloom, and a leaping brook calls after,
The Watchman and Other Poems Lucy Maud 1916
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Charming houses stand in the "dells," that is, in the umbrageous cul-de-sacs where the graded streets terminate in bluffs too bold to be penetrated.
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So, the USSR bought dells for their space program?
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So, the USSR bought dells for their space program?
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In later years, she encouraged a succession of admirers to scramble after her over barbed wire and through hedge bottoms to find picnic places and hidden bowers and dells and burrows.
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Joseph Fritzl my favorite is the iphone in the happening. aaron g tdk is missing dell. bruce is all set up w/dells in the lair.bleh. oh well, i'm sure the joker is an os x guy.
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Hell, some nights the sky held only bells, the dells welled with light, my head bent to the fire where you knelt, deftly dealt the deck, fortune-telling, sending velvet spells.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Hell, some nights the sky held only bells, the dells welled with light, my head bent to the fire where you knelt, deftly dealt the deck, fortune-telling, sending velvet spells.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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Pay attention as it cuts its way among the hills that cluster close to the palisades of the Kentucky River, where the countryside begins to undulate, forming a thousand tiny hillocks and dells, all covered with grass picked shaggy by grazing cattle.
Driving directions 2010
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Hell, some nights the sky held only bells, the dells welled with light, my head bent to the fire where you knelt, deftly dealt the deck, fortune-telling, sending velvet spells.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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