wale

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  1. noun A mark raised on the skin, as by a whip; a weal or welt.
  2. noun One of the parallel ribs or ridges in the surface of a fabric such as corduroy.
  3. noun The texture or weave of such a fabric: a wide wale.
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  • He was wearing a lab coat and corduroy pants that had been washed so often the wale was completely worn off on the knees. —  Futures Imperfect
  • He wore baggy, wide-wale corduroys that made the sound of rodents nesting when he walked. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • Honestly, he had a Tattersall shirt, patterned Fair Isle vest, and some very good wide-wale corduroy pants with pleats, all in shades of rust, green and taupe. —  BC Bloggers
  • January 26th, 2009 at 9: 19 pm that wale is going to go nuts down in DC —  illRoots
  • Unless we realize that Arsene's time is past we have not started solving our problems. wale oyeleke —  Arsenal Mania
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, variant of walu; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also weal, improperly wheal; from Middle English wale, from Anglo-Saxon walu (plural wala), a weal, mark of a blow; found also in comp. wyrt-wala, root, prop, stump of a root (orig. ‘rod’), = OFries. walu, a rod, staff (as in walu-bera, walebera, staff-bearer, pilgrim), = North Friesic waal, staff, = Middle Low German wol (in wolbroder, pilgrim) = Icelandic vöir (val-), a round stick, staff, = Swedish dial. val, a stick, flail-handle, = Gothic (Moesogothic) walus, staff.
  2. Also improperly whale; from wale, n.
  3. from Middle English wale, from Icelandic val = Old High German wala, Middle High German wal, German wahl, choice; from the root of will.
  4. Scots also wail; from Middle English walen, welen = Old High German wellen, Middle High German weln, wellen, German wählen = Icelandic velja = Swedish välja = Danish v ælge = Gothic (Moesogothic) waljan, choose; from the noun: see wale, n.
  5. from Middle English wale; from the same source as wale, n.
 

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