WALE

noun a wale knot, or wall knot.

2. wale ·vt to mark with wales, or stripes.

3. wale ·noun a timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

4. wale ·noun a ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.

5. wale ·noun a streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. ·see wheal.

6. wale ·vt to choose; to select; specifically (mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

7. wale ·noun 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.