dale

noun3

1. •
   (UK) a valley, a place where the ground lies lower than the hills around it

   • And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields — 1587
2. •
   The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
3. •
   (no longer used) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

   • The pump-dale scupper is that to which the dale leads, that conveys the water from the pumps to the side on the lower deck of large ships. — 1853