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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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"Wale" Quotes from Famous Books



... dealt him by the hand of man was suddenly aching and bleeding again, the skin along his flanks quivered where the spurs of Cordova had driven home time and again, and on shoulders and belly and hips there were burning stripes where the quirt had raised its wale. Most horrible of all, in his mouth came the taste of iron and his own blood where the Spanish bit had wrenched his jaws apart. Out of the old days he might have remembered the first and bitterest lesson—that it is folly to pull against a rope—but now he saw nothing save the fleeing forms of ...
— Alcatraz • Max Brand
... landed at Wale Point on June 26th, and on July 14th reached K'hutu. At Dug'humi Burton, despite his bags of chestnuts, fell with marsh fever, and in his fits he imagined himself to be "two persons who were inimical to each ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... You'm right, matey. This is a wale o' tears, as the 'ymn sez, and them as is out on it is best off, if so be as they done their dooty in that state o' life.... Where's the corfee, Jim? The water's ...
— A Student in Arms - Second Series • Donald Hankey
... her late husband's library. In 1667 he writes: 'I bought Mr. John Booker's study of books, and gave L140.' Being somewhat of an alchemist, he was glad to become the owner of Lilly's volumes on magic, and most of Dr. Dee's collection came into his hands through the kindness of his friend Mr. Wale. When Ashmole brought out his book upon the Order of the Garter he became the associate of the nobility; and we will leave him feasting at his house in South Lambeth, clad in a velvet gown, and wearing his great chain 'of ...
— The Great Book-Collectors • Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton
... effects 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


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