WALE
\wˈe͡ɪl], \wˈeɪl], \w_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of WALE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
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A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
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A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
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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.
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A wale knot, or wall knot.
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To mark with wales, or stripes.
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To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
By Oddity Software
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A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
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A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
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A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
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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.
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A wale knot, or wall knot.
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To mark with wales, or stripes.
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To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A raised streak left by a stripe: a ridge on the surface of cloth: a plank all along the outer timbers on a ship's side.
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To choose: to select. Burns.
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The act of choosing: the choice: a person or thing that is excellent: the pick: the best. "The pick and wale."-Burns.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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