Wale

Walename

• 1

  A surname.

walenoun詞源 1/ˈweɪl/

• 1

  A ridge or low barrier.

• 2

  A raised rib in knitted goods or fabric, especially corduroy.

  • Most twills are continuous—the wale goes from one corner to the one diagonally opposite. Pattern, however, can be achieved by periodically changing the direction of the wales.
  • I have woven a small sample of striped corduroy shown here. […] The stripe draws the eye from side to side while the wales draw the eye up and down.
• 3

  The texture of a piece of fabric.

  • Crepon cloths, with their heavy crape-like wale, are a noteworthy part of the season's importations.
• 4

  nauticaltransportA horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship, such as a gunwale or a chainwale.

  • The strakes between the several ranges of ports, beginning from under the upper-deck ports of a three-decked ship in the royal navy, are called the channel wale, the middle wale, and the main wale.
• 5

  A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.

  • A few feet below the first wale another timber is inserted, likewise secured by struts.
• 6

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

  • Except Plank upon the Head of the Key, and under the upper Wale, and Plank to join the piles.
• 7

  A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.

  • The wale is shaped to the size of the horse's neck, and then sewn together, with a flap, known as the 'barge', left free along one side. To this 'barge' the body of the collar is sewn.
• 8

  A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.

  • Shall then that foule infamous Cyneds hide Laugh at the purple wales of others side?
  • When the rat had looked at the toad's whole body, and not seen any wale of a stick, he said to the toad, "Brother toad, I have looked at thy whole body, and not seen any wale of a stick: thou art right."

waleverb詞源 1/ˈweɪl/

• 1

  To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.

  • Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?
• 2

  To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.

  • When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.
• 3

  To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.

walenoun詞源 2/ˈweɪl/

• 1

  Something selected as being the best, preference; choice; choosing.

waleverb詞源 2/ˈweɪl/

• 1

  To choose, select.