Dalles Definition

dălz
noun
The rapids of a river between the steep, rocky walls of a narrow canyon.
Webster's New World
(plural only) The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge.
Wiktionary
(plural only) A steep-sided part of a stream channel, near the dalles proper, marked by clefts, ravines, or gorges.
Wiktionary

Origin of Dalles

  • French pl. of dalle gutter from Old French from Old Norse dæla

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the French dalle.

    From Wiktionary

Dalles Sentence Examples

  • The state supports three parks - Itasca state park (22,000 acres, established in 1891), about the sources of the Mississippi, in Clearwater, Becker and Hubbard counties; the St Croix (established in 1895), in Chicago county, across the St Croix from the Wisconsin state park of the same name, and including the beautiful Dalles of the St Croix; and the Minneopa state park (established in 1905), containing Minneopa Falls, near Mankato.

  • After Black Hawk's defeat on the Bad Axe he fled to the Wisconsin river Dalles, near the present Kilbourn, where he was betrayed by the Winnebago.

  • She grew up in Oregon and Washington State, spending most of her childhood in a town along the Columbia River called The Dalles.

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