noun
dell
DELL/del/
A small wooded valley.
The dell has a grassy bottom enclosed by tree-covered slopes.
Etymology
Old English dell meant a hollow or valley, matching the small landscape depression named today. Direct survival is uncertain: the word may have been lost and later reborrowed from a closely related Germanic form.
In context
lion when a man who was chasing deer has robbed him of his young in some dense forest; when the lion comes back he is furious, and searches dingle and dell to track the hunter