'Wale' definitions:
Definition of 'wale'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Wale'
From: 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. [1913 Webster]
- Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Carp.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Wale knot. (Naut.) See Wall knot, under 1st Wall. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wale'
From: GCIDE
- Wale \Wale\, v. t.
- 1. To mark with wales, or stripes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wale'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Wale'
- Wales,
- Waling,
- Chain wales,
- Foot waling,
- Lake Wales,
- North Wales,
- Prince of Wales,
- Wale knot,
- Wales, AK,
- Wales, ND,
- Wales, UT,
- Wales, WI,
- narrow wale,
- princess of wales,
- wide wale,
- Lake Wales, FL,
- North Wales, PA,
- new south wales,
- prince of wales heath,
- New South Wales rosewood,
- prince-of-wales feather,
- prince-of-wales fern,
- prince-of-wales plume,
- prince-of-wales'-heath,
- Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan,
- Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan, AK,
- Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area,
- Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area, AK