Dawlish
Proper noun
Meaning
Dawlish
A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9676).
Examples
Passenger Gill Garratt said: 'Huge wave smashes into moving train and breaks windows passing through Dawlish, several passengers injured.
The seawall was so badly breached at Dawlish it left sections of railway track dangling in the air.
Dawlish: David & Charles, 1965 (The third edition was published at Exeter in 1914 and was still in print until about 1940) * Folk Rhymes of Devon.
Plot The unnamed protagonist is ordered to Helsinki by Dawlish, his boss, to suppress a newspaper article, potentially embarrassing to the U.K. government, about to be published by a Finnish journalist.
There is also the RSPB, which has reserves in the county, as well as English Nature, who look after several reserves such as Dawlish Warren.