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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..

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

Harlech Group :: Harlech group () A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.

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

Gwiniad :: Gwiniad (n.) A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly..

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate.

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

Welsh :: Welsh (n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.

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

Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..

Lyre Bird :: Lyre bird () Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail..

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

Marchman :: Marchman (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

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..

Slough :: Slough (n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Oarlock :: Oarlock (n.) The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock..

Wale :: Wale (n.) A wale knot, or wall knot..

Rowlock :: Rowlock (n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar..

Portoise :: Portoise (n.) The gunwale of a ship.

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