Definitions of wale

The word "wale" uses 4 letters: aelw.

n. - A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. ²

n. - A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. ²

n. - A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position. ²

n. - 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. ²

n. - A wale knot, or wall knot. ²

v. t. - To mark with wales, or stripes. ²

v. t. - To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. ²