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Definition of wale

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Wale (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..

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Weal :: Weal (n.) The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

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Waling :: Waling (n.) Same as Wale, n., 4..

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Princess :: Princess (n.) The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales..

Swore :: Sweal (v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair..

Swale :: Swale (n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen..

Wall :: Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

Kibble :: Kibble (n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.

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Netting :: Netting (n.) A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding..

Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..

Celt :: Celt (n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France..

Eisteddfod :: Eisteddfod (n.) Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom..

Wale :: Wale (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..

Harpings :: Harpings (n. pl.) The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem..

Gunnel :: Gunnel (n.) A gunwale.

Pibcorn :: Pibcorn (n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales..

Damsel :: Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales..