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Valleys

Valley \Val"ley\, n.; pl. Valleys. [OE. vale, valeie, OF. val['e]e, valede, F. vall['e]e, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale.]

  1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.

    The valley of the shadow of death.
    --Ps. xxiii. 4.

    Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
    --Milton.

    Note: Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of erosion by water, and are called gorges, ravines, ca[~n]ons, gulches, etc.

  2. (Arch.)

    1. The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a re["e]ntrant angle.

    2. The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.

      Valley board (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead gutter in the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead gutter are not usual in the United States.

      Valley rafter, or Valley piece (Arch.), the rafter which supports the valley.

      Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See Valley, 2, above.

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valleys

n. (plural of valley English)

Usage examples of "valleys".

There are not enough young men left in the Iron Valleys for more companies to be raised, not without weakening the merchants and crafters and breaking the promises the Lord-Protector has made.

He looked to the northeast out across the ridge before him, and the expanse of land empty except for quarasote and sand and red soil—and the predators and prey that were unseen, except to those who knew how to understand the Iron Valleys or to those with Talent, who could sense the lifethreads that wove the world into a unified whole.

If his choice is to protect the Iron Valleys by serving or let them fall to the Regent, after what he's been through, he'll agree.

I was going to save the Iron Valleys and be a hero so that I'd be respected.

Although the shadow of twilight covered the Iron Valleys, green-tinged light flashed from the crystal escarpments of the western edge of the Plateau.

No one is going to help the Iron Valleys until they've dealt with things closer to their home.

I don't know how this new Regent of the Matrial has managed to take over, but she has, and without the support of the Lord-Protector to block the Regent, Madrien can take the Iron Valleys in a season.

Our informants suggest that he has returned to being a herder and has no interest in arms, unless the Iron Valleys are threatened.

No wonder the Iron Valleys had been forced to accept annexation by and union with Lanachrona.

They had just passed the stone announcing that the former capital of the once-independent Iron Valleys lay but two vingts ahead.

From Alucius's point of view, such remnants of the near-open former hostilities between the Iron Valleys and Lanachrona would best have been removed as soon as possible.

Herders in the Iron Valleys have reported strange kinds of sanders on the steads.

I did not ask to be here, and I did not ask to be sent to put down an internal domestic revolt in Lanachrona, a revolt with which the Iron Valleys have no connection.

He is the only man in the history of Corus to receive the highest decorations from Deforya, Lanachrona, and the Iron Valleys simultaneously.

The Iron Valleys agreed to union with Lanachrona not because they were defeated in battle, but because they had no golds left to pay the militia or to purchase supplies.