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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".
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