"Wale" is a word in ENGLISH
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe;
a wheal. See Wheal.
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.
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth;
hence, the texture of cloth.
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out
the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
To mark with wales, or stripes.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and
in position.
A wale knot, or wall knot.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Read the complete definitionA district comprising a hun-dred villages; a hundred. A term used in wales in tlie same sense as “hundred” is …
Read the complete definitionA district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales.
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Read the complete definitionCHALDERN, or CHAL-DER. Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In wales …
Read the complete definitionA treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
Read the complete definitionHalf a cantred or hundred In wales, containing fifty vllages. Also a great seignory or lordship, and may include one …
Read the complete definitionA boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and …
Read the complete definitionA mortuary, thus termed because, when a mortuary became due on the death of a man, the best or sec-ond-best …
Read the complete definitionA court formerly held in Wales; abollshed by 11 Geo. IV. and 1 wm. IV. c. 70. and the welsh …
Read the complete definitionA species of private courts of a limited though extensive Jurisdiction, which
Read the complete definitionOne of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Read the complete definitionA young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
Read the complete definitionAm assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being …
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