- (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.) 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.
- (v.t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
- (v.t.) To mark with wales or stripes.
- (n.) A wale knot or wall knot.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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