Delt vs Dell - What's the difference?
delt | dell |
As a noun delt is (slang) shoulder. As a verb delt is . As a proper noun dell is .
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
delt English
Noun
( en noun)
(slang) Shoulder
* 2005 , F. Paul Wilson, Midnight Mass? , page 67
- she had this tat of a devil face sticking out a Gene Simmons-class tongue on her left delt .
Synonyms
* (shoulder) shoulder
Related terms
* delts
Verb
(head)
* {{quote-book, year=1589, author=Anonymous, title=A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Here now they cry out, that the Commaunders of our Fleete haue delt iniuriously with them, they exclaime that the leagues are broken, that their old priuiledges in England are violated, which they chalenge to belong to their Cities, and ought to be kept and mainteined. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1597, author=King James I, title=Daemonologie., chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=PHILOMATHES. Indeede there is cause inough, but rather to leaue him at all, then to runne more plainlie to him, if they were wise he delt with. }}
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dell English
Noun
( en noun)
valley
* 1794, , lines 49-50
- To this day they dwell
- In a lonely dell .
* Tickell
- In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
(obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
* Ben Jonson
- Sweet doxies and dells .
Synonyms
* dale
* dingle
* vale
* valley
* See also
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