"wale" Definition

Definitions for the word "wale" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A wale knot, or wall knot.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To mark with wales, or stripes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 = *weal1. 2 ridge on corduroy etc. 3 naut. A broad thick timber along a ship''s side. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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