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over hill and dale

over hill and dale adverb: across or throughout the land.

Adverb

over hill and dale (not comparable)

  1. Across or throughout the land.
    • As St. Olaf, the royal apostle of the North, was one day going over hill and dale, thinking how he could contrive to build a splendid church without distressing his people by taxation, he was met by a man of a strange appearance[.]1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 117

Questions about over hill and dale

What does over hill and dale mean?
Over hill and dale means across or throughout the land.
What part of speech is over hill and dale?
Over hill and dale is an adverb.

Words near over hill and dale in the dictionary

  1. over celebrating
  2. over easy
  3. over hard
  4. over head and ears
  5. over here
  6. over hill and dale
  7. over joyous
  8. Over Kellet
  9. over light
  10. over medium
  11. over my dead body

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