VALE, noun [Latin vallis; Eng. to fall.] 1. A tract of low ground or of land between hills; a valley. [Vale is used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.] In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please. 2. A little trough or canal; as a pump vale to carry off the water from a ship's pump. 3. Vales, money given to servants. [avails.] [Not used in America.]
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