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dall

dall noun: a tile with an incised surface.

Noun

dall (plural dalls)

  1. A tile with an incised surface.
    • […] for such machine-made slate "dalls," or tiles, as perhaps we might call them, would soon be valued by the architect and builder for the roofs of many other classes of buildings as well as ecclesiastical ones.1872, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 646
    • […] tiling. Thus arose those admirable roofs known in France as "en dallage," of which one most instructive example to both engineer and architect may be seen in those of the clerestory roofs of Nôtre Dame at Paris. The "dalls" being hand wrought[…]1872, The Engineer

Proper noun capitalized: Dall

Dall

  1. A lake in Alaska.
  2. The Dall River in British Columbia.
  3. A surname. For example, William Healey Dall.

Forms of dall

pluraldalls

Origin of dall

Compare French dalle, dallage.

Etymologically unrelated to Dahl as in Roald Dahl?

Words formed from dall

Questions about dall

What does dall mean?
Dall means a tile with an incised surface.
What part of speech is dall?
Dall can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of dall?
The plural of dall is dalls.

Words near dall in the dictionary

  1. Dalkeith
  2. Dalkes
  3. Dalketh
  4. Dalkey
  5. dalks
  6. dall
  7. Dall sheep
  8. Dall's porpoise
  9. Dall's porpoises
  10. Dall's sheep
  11. Dall.

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