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n. A mark raised on the skin, as by a whip; a weal or welt.

n. One of the parallel ribs or ridges in the surface of a fabric such as corduroy.

n. The texture or weave of such a fabric: a wide wale.

n. Nautical A gunwale.

n. Nautical One of the heavy planks or strakes extending along the sides of a wooden ship.

v. To raise marks on (the skin), as by whipping.

n. A ridge or low barrier.

n. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course)

n. The texture of a piece of fabric.

n. A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)

n. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.

n. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.

n. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.

v. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.

v. To give a surface a texture of wales.

n. Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

v. to choose, select.

n. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

n. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.

n. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

n.

n. Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel

n. A wale knot, or wall knot.

v. To mark with wales, or stripes.

v. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

n. In wood ship-building, one of the strakes of heavy outside planking above the turn of the bilge. In wooden war-ships, the main wales extended from the lower gun-port sills to the bottom plank, the middle wales between the main-deck ports and the gun-deck ports, and the channel wales, sometimes called strings, between the spar- and main-deck ports. See bend, 3 .

Specifically, to sort or pick (coal) by hand at the mine or breaker.

n. A rod.

n. A ridge or plank along the edge of a ship. Compare gunwale.

n. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position; a wale-piece.

n. A wale-knot.

n. A ridge in cloth, formed by a thread or a group of threads; hence, a stripe or strain implying quality.

n. A streak or stripe produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip.

n. A tumor, or large swelling.

To mark with wales or stripes.

To weave or make the web of, as a gabion, with more than two rods at a time.

n. A picking or choosing; the choice; the pick or pink of anything; the best.

To seek; choose; select; court; woo.

Choice; good; excellent.

n. An obsolete form of weal.

n. thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship

n. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

"One member was stationed at the door of the party and took note of the kind of wale, which is the raised portion of corduroy, that people were wearing."

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