Meanings
plural dimbles
- obsoleteA bower; a dingle.
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, London: M. Lownes et al., Song 2, p. 27, And Satyres, that in stades and gloomy dimbles dwell, Runne whooting to the hills to clappe their rude[r] hands.
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c. 1637, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd (unfinished play), Act II, Scene 1, in W. Gifford (editor), The Works of Ben Jonson, London: G. & W. Nicol et al., 1816, Volume 6, p. 274, The Forest as before. The Witch’s Dimble, cottage, oak, well, &c.
Origin
Probably originally a cavity, and the same word as dimple.
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