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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'wale' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions wale noun  A ridge or low barrier. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric. (As opposed to course) The texture of a piece of fabric. The outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale) A horizontal timber use for support or retaining earth. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip. verb (wal, ing) To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale. 1832: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political :Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels? 2002: Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century :When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to on his own family or...no beatings. Etymology:  walu "a stripe or ridge". Akin to Low German wÄle; Old Norse vala "knuckle".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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