Definition of "dell" in английский

noun

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

   • To this day they dwell In a lonely dell.

noun

1. (obsolete) 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.