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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Wale :: Wale (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
Sheer :: Sheer (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side..
Waling :: Waling (n.) Same as Wale, n., 4..
Welsh :: Welsh (n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
Welsh :: Welsh (n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people..
Wale :: Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Welsh :: Welsh (a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants..
Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
Gunnel :: Gunnel (n.) A gunwale.
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..
Gwiniad :: Gwiniad (n.) A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly..
Slough :: Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Wale :: Wale (v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes..
Swore :: Sweal (v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair..
Hornpipe :: Hornpipe (n.) An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn..
Lichwale :: Lichwale (n.) The gromwell.
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..
Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..
Culdee :: Culdee (n.) One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales..
Llandeilo Group :: Llandeilo group () A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.
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