dell

Meanings

1. A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow.

1. A young woman; a wench.
2. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11
3. 1896, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896), page -11: A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.
4. A Dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the vpright man.

1. A surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. A town in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
4. An unincorporated community in Faribault County, Minnesota.
5. An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
6. A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.

Etymology

From Middle English delle, del, from Old English dell (“small dale”), from Proto-West Germanic *dalljā, from Proto-Germanic *daljō. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *dolъ (“below, down; valley, pit”), Welsh dôl (“meadow, dale”) and English dale.