dall

See also: Dall, Dall., and dall'

English

Etymology

Compare French dalle, dallage.

Noun

dall (plural dalls)

1. A tile with an incised surface.
   • 1872, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 646:

     […] 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, The Engineer:

     […] 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 […]

See also

• dalls

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton dall, from Old Breton dall, from Proto-Brythonic *dall, from Proto-Celtic *dallos.

Adjective

dall

1. blind

Mutation

Mutation of dall

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
dall	zall	unchanged	tall	tall

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from dallar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdaʎ]

Noun

dall m (plural dalls)

1. math (what is gathered from mowing)
2. foremath
3. mowing (act of mowing)
4. billhook

Synonyms

• (mowing): dallada
• (billhook): podall

Derived terms

• redall

Further reading

• “dall”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007