Dalles

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dalles \Dalles\ (d[a^]lz), n. pl. [F. dalle a tube, gutter,
     trough.]
     A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rock
     walls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]
  
           The place below, where the compressed river wound like


           a silver thread among the flat black rocks, was the
           far-famed Dalles of the Columbia.        --F. H. Balch.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]