Crossword clues for dalles
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dalles \Dalles\ (d[a^]lz), n. pl. [F. dalle a tube, gutter, trough.] A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]
The place below, where the compressed river wound like
a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the
far-famed Dalles of the Columbia.
--F. H. Balch.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pluralonly English) The rapids in a deep, narrow stream confined between the rock walls of a canyon or gorge. 2 (context pluralonly English) A steep-sided part of a stream channel, near the dalles proper, marked by clefts, ravines, or gorges.
Wikipedia
Dalles may refer to any one of several places in North America:
- The Dalles Dam, joining Wasco County, Oregon with Klickitat County, Washington
- Dalles des Morts, historical rapids in Columbia Country, BC
- Dalles of the St. Croix River, a park in Polk, WI
- Fort Dalles, Wasco, Oregon
- The Dalles, a city in Wasco, Oregon
- The Dalles High School, Wasco, Oregon
- The Dalles Municipal Airport, Wasco, Oregon
Usage examples of "dalles".
Lucy Dalles, with parted lips, was straining toward him as he cleaved his way back to her.
Lucy Dalles had left him, tingling blissfully in every vein, the mundane thought that Tweet was probably awaiting him in the lodging house had obtruded itself and hurried him up the street.
He was horrified at the prospects, but blissfully conscious that he had given Lucy Dalles an afternoon of pleasure.
He realized now that Lucy Dalles was not the adventure girl who had beckoned in his dreams.
For a moment or two the new prospects that loomed kept his mind busy, then his thoughts reverted to Lucy Dalles, and gloom claimed him once more.
The giant stood staring at her, and not a thought of Lucy Dalles was in his mind now.
Hiram nodded, and thoughts of pink-and-white little Lucy Dalles and her ambitions were far in the background of his mind.
Lucy Dalles, and now with this splendid girl called Jerkline Jo, might have turned the head of a more sophisticated male.
Had he but known it the advent of Lucy Dalles in Ragtown was to have a great deal to do with the future fortunes of both Jerkline Jo and himself.
As for Lucy Dalles, that ambitious young woman entered with gusto into the feverish life of Ragtown.
His eye caught the eye of Lucy Dalles, leaning over her carpeted counter between her rifles, and when he had made camp he limped along and accosted her.
As they crowded around her Lucy Dalles peered in at the door, a contemptuous sneer on her lips.
Shortly after Jerkline Jo left the beauty parlor of Lucy Dalles, mischievously bent on giving Ragtown a harmless little shock, Al Drummond sidled up to the old prospector at the bar in the Palace Dance Hall.
One who has never lived in a frontier camp such as Ragtown may find it difficult to analyze the characters of Lucy Dalles and Albert Drummond.
Drummond and Lucy Dalles were dangerous conspirators now, and took a certain pride in the knowledge of it.