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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.





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"Wale" Quotes from Famous Books



... general name among the negroes," for which Douville prefers "moleke" (masc.) and "molecka" (fem.), is applied only to a slave, and in this sense it has extended west of the Atlantic. In the numerals, "wale" (2) should be "kwale," "quina" (4) "kuya," and "evona" (9) "iowa." We may remark the pentenary system of the Windward Coast and the Gaboon negroes; e.g., 6 is "sambano" ("mose" and "tano" 1 5), and 7 is "sambwale" ("mose" and "kwale") and so forth, whilst "kumi" (10), ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... thing in his life was gone—a King discrowned, dethroned. Feeling now every wale on his back and legs, he sullenly ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton


Words linked to "Wale" :   wheal, strake, narrow wale, welt, garboard, plank, harm, vessel, hurt, watercraft, gunnel


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