Definitions for wale

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Spelling: [weyl]

IPA: /weɪl/

Wale is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in wale (aelw).

Definitions for wale

noun

1. a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
2. the vertical rib in knit goods or a chain of loops running lengthwise in knit fabric (opposed to course).
3. the texture or weave of a fabric.
4. Nautical. any of certain strakes of thick outside planking on the sides of a wooden ship. gunwale.
5. Also called breast timber, ranger, waling. Engineering, Building Trades. a horizontal timber or other support for reinforcing various upright members, as sheet piling or concrete form boards, or for retaining earth at the edge of an excavation.
6. a ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
7. something that is selected as the best; choice.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with wales.
2. to weave with wales.
3. Engineering, Building Trades. to reinforce or fasten with a wale or wales.
4. to choose; select.

Origin of wale

before 1050; (noun) Middle English; Old English walu ridge, rib, wheal; cognate with Old Norse vǫlr, Gothic walus rod, wand; (v.) late Middle English, derivative of

Examples for wale

Vertical staving was used to carry the wale around the stern.

With two weavers of blue and one of natural, weave two rows of wale.

wale put the lid on in case his employer might hear any more of his sentiments.

Mr. Quintus Slide, when he was really anxious to use his thong earnestly, could generally raise a wale.

His business was to wale dismal, and bow his head down, the band (a barrel organ and a wiolin) playin slow and melancholly moosic.

The weather is cruel, but the place 323 is, as I dare say you know, the very “wale” of Scotland—bar Tummelside.

Armstrong fell back, against the bench, perfectly livid, with the wale of the blow standing out red and distinct across his cheek.

Neea whaar sooa far south, Mrs. wale, ma'am; but ma father was off times down thar cuttin' peat.

Mind thy latter end, Paul, and reverence the old, without axing what they has been before they passed into the wale of years.

That chap that disna speak is ane o' the wale o' the Ha's: I ken him weel for a' his half visor.