Definitions for dalles

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Spelling: [dalz]
IPA: /dælz/

Dalles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in dalles (adells).

Definitions for dalles

noun

  1. The, a city in N Oregon.

plural noun

  1. the rapids of a river running between the walls of a canyon or gorge.

Origin of dalles

1825-35, Americanism; Canadian French, plural of French dial. (Normandy) dalle literally, sink ≪ Germanic; compare Old English dæl dale

Examples for dalles

For some time the rate from The dalles to Wallula had been $3 per ton.

These were taken down the dalles, and sometimes down the Cascades.

There is a village of three thousand inhabitants at the dalles.

The passage from The dalles to Portland was only one dollar.

Farnham has not exaggerated the bad reputation of the Indians at the dalles.

Since that time there have been few steamboats on that part of the River above The dalles.

Our wagon had been left at The dalles and we had never seen or heard of it again.

The party forced the guide to pilot them to The dalles, which he did.

Mean annual rainfall: Portland, 45.1 inches; The dalles, 19 inches.

On both sides of the Columbia about the dalles are the Wascopams.

Word Value for dalles
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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