Wale

4 definitions found

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

  Wale \Wale\, v. t.
     1. To mark with wales, or stripes.
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     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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wale \Wale\, n. [AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably
     originally, a rod; akin to Icel. v["o]lr, Goth. walus a rod,
     staff. [root]146. Cf. {Goal}, {Weal} a wale.]
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     1. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a
        stripe; a wheal. See {Wheal}. --Holland.
  
     Syn: welt; weal; wheal.
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     2. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth;
        hence, the texture of cloth.
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              Thou 'rt rougher far,
              And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. --Beau. &
                                                    Fl.
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     3. (Carp.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them
        together and in position. --Knight.
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     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.
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     {Wale knot}. (Naut.) See {Wall knot}, under 1st {Wall}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wale
       n 1: a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a
            whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions [syn: {welt},
             {weal}, {wheal}]
       2: thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
          [syn: {strake}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  170 Moby Thesaurus words for "wale":
     abscess, aposteme, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, blain,
     bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb,
     bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker,
     canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain,
     chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack,
     crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
     disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar,
     fault, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, finish,
     fistula, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, gall,
     gathering, gnarl, grain, granular texture, gumboil, handle,
     hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, indentation,
     jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knub, knur, knurl,
     lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, nap,
     needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, papula, papule,
     paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, pile, piles, pimple, pit, pock,
     pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, protuberance,
     pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, scab, scar, scratch,
     sebaceous cyst, shag, shoulder, soft chancre, sore, spine, split,
     stigma, strawberry mark, structure, stud, sty, style, suppuration,
     surface, surface texture, swelling, tab, texture, track, tubercle,
     tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, warp, wart,
     weal, weave, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whelp, whitehead, whitlow,
     woof, wound