Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
wall .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
whall .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
whall .
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Examples
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"Weel, gin ye come in for a barrel or twa, ye may coont upo 'me to tak it aff yer han', at the ordinar 'price�-to the _wholesale_ merchan's, ye ken�-wi' maybe a sma 'discoont for orderin' 't afore the whaul was ta'en."
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Forbes, wha says that afore lang he'll be wantin 'a young doctor to gang and haud the scurvy aff o' his men at the whaul-fishin '.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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He does naething but rowt aboot in 's boaratory as he ca's 't -- bore-a-whig, or bore-a-tory, it's little to me -- makin 'stinks there fit to scomfish a whaul, an' gar 'im stick his nose aneth the watter for a glamp o' fresh air.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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Gien I was you, I wadna tell fowk any sic nonsense as yon; I wad tell them 'at ilk ane' at disna dee his wark i 'the warl', an 'dee 't the richt gait, 's no the worth o' a minnin, no to say a whaul, for ilk ane o 'thae wee craturs dis the wull o' him 'at made' im wi 'ilka whisk o' his bit tailie, fa'in 'in wi' a 'the jabble o' the jaws again 'the rocks, for it's a' ae thing -- an 'a' to haud the muckle sea clean.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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"Are ye the whaul than, to swallow me and my words thegither, Jean?
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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