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Wale   /weɪl/   Listen
noun
Wale  n.  
1.
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Synonyms: welt; weal; wheal.
2.
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. "Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride."
3.
(Carp.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
4.
(Naut.)
(a)
pl. Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
(b)
A wale knot, or wall knot.
Wale knot. (Naut.) See Wall knot, under 1st Wall.



verb
Wale  v. t.  
1.
To mark with wales, or stripes.
2.
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)






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... end, the Lord will triumph; I dinna misdoobt that. But here on earth, even silly men-folk daur Him to His face. It is no' wise; I am no sayin' that it's wise; but it's the pride of the eye, and it's the lust o' life, an' it's the wale o' pleesures." ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson

... an old friend, Fundi Sangoro, Musa's "head gamekeeper," who assured me that the sable antelope and blanc boc, specimens of which I had not yet seen, inhabited some low swampy place called N'yama, or "Meat," not far distant, on the left bank of the Wale nullah. My companion unfortunately got fever here, and was prevented from going out, and I did little better; for although I waded up to my middle every day, and wounded several blanc boc, I only bagged one, and should not have got even him, had it not happened ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... of other religious, both Clerks and Lay, Brothers who had come together from every quarter to keep this Festival, the first four Brothers of our House were invested by that reverend and devout man, John Wale, Prior of the Regulars in the state of Zwolle, for he had been summoned for this very purpose. This number four did mystically signify the number of the four Evangelists, and the names of these ...
— The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes • Thomas a Kempis

... of Nathaniel Hill was '1 old syringe.' In York County records we find that Thomas Whitehead in 1660 paid Edmond Smith for '2 glysters.' George Wale's account to the estate of Thomas Baxter in 1658 included a similar charge. George Light in 1657 paid Dr. Mode fifty pounds of tobacco for 'a glister and administering.' John Clulo, Francis Haddon and William Lee each presented bills ...
— Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 • Thomas P. Hughes

... greater than ere Thys fest was Muche Moore before. [Th]an euere Arthour made a-fore; 140 Ten kings were For [th]ere was Vrweyn [th]e kynge there, Of scottes at [th]at dynynge, Stater [th]e kyng of south wales, Cadwelle [th]e kyng of north wale[gh], 144 Gwylmar [th]e kyng of yrland, Dolmad [th]e kyng of guthland, Malgan of yselond also, Archyl of Denmarch [th]erto, 148 Alothe [th]e kyng of Norwey, Souenas [th]e kyng of Orkenye, Of Breteyn [th]e kyng Hoel, and thirteen Cador Erl of Cornewelle, 152 earls Morice [th]e ...
— Arthur, Copied And Edited From The Marquis of Bath's MS • Frederick J. Furnivall


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