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• IPA^(key):/ˈweɪl/,[ˈweɪɫ]
• Rhymes:-eɪl
• Homophones:wail;whale(wine–whine merger)

The noun is fromMiddle Englishwāle(“planking, welt”), fromOld Englishwalu(“ridge, bank; rib, comb (of helmet); metal ridge on top of helmet; weal, mark of a blow”), fromProto-Germanic*waluz(“stick, root”), fromProto-Indo-European*welH-(“to turn, wind, roll”). Akin to Low Germanwāle; Old Norsevala(“knuckle”). The verb is from lateMiddle Englishwālen, from the noun.

wale (pluralwales)

1. Aridge or low barrier.
2. A raisedrib in knitted goods orfabric, especiallycorduroy.

   Coordinate term:course

   • 1979, Kax Wilson,A History of Textiles, Westview Press,→ISBN, pages66-67:

     Most twills arecontinuous—thewale goes from one corner to the one diagonally opposite. Pattern, however, can be achieved by periodically changing the direction of thewales.

   • 2008, Mary Lisa Gavenas,The Fairchild Encyclopedia of Menswear, page99:

     The fabric may be further described according to the number ofwales per inch: Corduroy known as finewale, pin-wale, or needlewale has very thin wales (usually twelve or more per inch, i.e., the width of a pin), while widewale corduroy has thickerwales (usually six or fewer per inch).

3. Thetexture of a piece of fabric.
   • 1892, “Family Fashions and Fancies”, inGood Housekeeping, volume14, page85:

     Crepon cloths, with their heavy crape-likewale, are a noteworthy part of the season's importations.

4. (nautical) Ahorizontal ridge or ledge on the outsideplanking of a woodenship. (Seegunwale,chainwale)
   • 1863, Andrew Murray,Ship-building in Iron and Wood, page93:

     The strakes between the several ranges of ports, beginning from under the upper-deck ports of a three-decked ship in the royal navy, are called the channel wale, the middlewale, and the mainwale.

5. A horizontaltimber used forsupporting orretaining earth.
   • 1889 February 23,Architecture and Building: A Journal of Investment and Construction, volume10, page63:

     A few feet below the firstwale another timber is inserted, likewise secured by struts.

6. Atimber bolted to a row ofpiles to secure them together and in position.^[1]
   • 1754, Thomas Gardner,An Historical Account of Dunwich[…]:

     Except Plank upon the Head of the Key, and under the upperWale, and Plank to join the piles.

7. A ridge on the outside of a horsecollar.
   • 1976,Ralph Whitlock,Gentle giants: the past, present and future of the heavy horse, page133:

     Thewale is shaped to the size of the horse's neck, and then sewn together, with a flap, known as the 'barge', left free along one side. To this 'barge' the body of the collar is sewn.

8. A ridge or streak produced on skin by acane orwhip.
   • c.1600,John Ayliffe,Satires:

     Shall then that foule infamous Cyneds hide Laugh at the purplewales of others side?

   • 1854, S. W. Koelle,African Native Literature, Or Proverbs, Tales, Fables and Historical in the Kanuri Or Bornu Language:

     When the rat had looked at the toad's whole body, and not seen anywale of a stick, he said to the toad, "Brother toad, I have looked at thy whole body, and not seen anywale of a stick: thou art right."

   • 2018, Seabury Quinn,The Dark Angel: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Three:

     I ran to her, and when I reached her I saw across the white skin of her shoulders the distinctwale of a whip.

• waling

wale (third-person singular simple presentwales,present participlewaling,simple past and past participlewaled)

1. Tostrike theskin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
   • 1832, Owen Felltham,Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political:

     Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip towale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?

2. Tobeat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
   • 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 towale on his own family or...no beatings.

3. To give asurface atexture of wales or welts.

• wale on
• whale
• weal
• wheal

FromMiddle Englishwale,wal, fromOld Norseval(“choice”), fromProto-Germanic*walą,*walō(“desire, choice”), fromProto-Indo-European*welh₁-(“to choose, want”). Akin toOld Norsevelja(“to choose”),Old High Germanwala "choice" (GermanWahl "choice"),Old Englishwillan(“to want”). More atwill.

wale (pluralwales)

1. (Scotland,Northern England) Something selected as being the best,preference;choice.

wale (third-person singular simple presentwales,present participlewaling,simple past and past participlewaled)

1. (Scotland,Northern England) Tochoose,select.

• wail(obsolete)

• “wale”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “wale”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

• alew,e-law,lawe,weal

• IPA^(key):/waˈle/ [wʌˈlɛ]
• Hyphenation:wa‧le

walé f 

1. possibility

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page75

wale

1. pig

• 2009 (originally1968), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland,Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19.

• IPA^(key):/ˈwa.le/,[ˈʋɐ.le]

wale

1. phlegm
2. saliva

wale

1. Used to modify the preceding wordonly,just,alone;quite,very;simply,for free,withoutreason

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wale”, inHawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

• IPA^(key):/ˈwaːlə/

wāle

1. Alternative form ofwel

FromOld Englishwealh. For the phonological development, comparehale.

• wælh

• IPA^(key):/ˈwaːl(ə)/

wale

1. (rare) An outsider; a guest; one from an unfamiliar land.
2. (rare) A thrall; a hireling.

• Wales
• Walsch
• walmore
• walnot
• walwort

• “wāle,n.(3).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-05-10.

FromOld Englishwalu, fromProto-West Germanic*walu, fromProto-Germanic*waluz.

• walle,wala

• IPA^(key):/ˈwaːl(ə)/

wale (pluralwales)

1. A wooden board used for creating the exterior of a vessel;planking.
2. (rare) Awelt; an injury created by use of a whip or a similar weapon.
3. (rare) A lesion; a boil.

• English:wale,weal
• Scots:wale,wail

• “wāle,n.(2).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-05-10.

Borrowed fromOld Norse*valu, earlier form ofvǫl, variant ofval, fromProto-Germanic*walą.

• wal,wall,wayle

• IPA^(key):/ˈwaːl(ə)/

wale

1. A selection or possibility; a decision.
2. (rare) Apreference; something chosen due to its quality.

• walen

• English:wale
• Scots:wale, Scots:wail

• “wāle,n.(1).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-05-10.

wale

2. amazing, ofgreat quality or talent.
3. pleasing,nice,enjoyable,benevolent
4. strong,firm,strengthy
5. (negatively)impactful,grievous,melancholy
6. (rare) decided, resolved, picked.

• “wāle,adj.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-05-10.

wale

1. Alternative form ofvale

wale

1. Alternative form ofwal

wale

1. Alternative form ofwalen

wale

1. Alternative form ofwhal

• wel(Föhr-Amrum,Sylt)

FromOld Frisianwilla.

• IPA^(key):/ˈvalə/

wale

1. (Mooring) towant

wale

1. inflection ofwalu:
   1. accusative/genitive/dativesingular
   2. nominative/accusativeplural

• Rhymes:-alɛ
• Syllabification:wa‧le
• Homophone:walę

Fromwał +‎-e.

wale nvir pl

1. (Przemyśl,construction)strawrope dipped inclay used in theconstruction ofchimneys

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

wale m inan orm animal

1. locative/vocativesingular ofwał

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

wale m animal

1. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofwal

• Aleksander Saloni (1899) “wale”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors,Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page246)

FromProto-Polynesian*fale, from Proto-Central Pacific*vale, fromProto-Oceanic*pale, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*balay.

wale

1. house

   Nō mātou tewale nei.

   This is our house.

2. home

   Ka wano au kiwale kaikai.

   I'll gohome and eat.

3. building

• waleimu(“cookhouse, kitchen”)
• walepule(“church”)
• walemaki(“hospital”)
• wale āuli(“jail, prison”)

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

FromMiddle Englishwal, wale, fromOld Norseval(“choice”), fromProto-Germanic*walą,*walō(“desire, choice”), fromProto-Indo-European*welh₁-(“to choose, wish”).

Akin toOld Norsevelja(“to choose”),Old High Germanwala(“choice”) (Germanwählen(“to choose”)),Old Englishwillan(“to want”).

• IPA^(key):/wel/

wale (pluralwales)

1. choice,selection

wale (third-person singular simple presentwales,present participlewalin,simple pastwaled,past participlewaled)

1. tochoose

wale

1. wa class_(II) inflected form of-le

wale

1. third-personpluralsubjunctive of-la

• IPA^(key):[ˈwa.le]

wale

1. (intransitive) toswing onesarms

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh