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WALE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship

Synonyms:

strake; wale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wale" is a kind of...):

board; plank (a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wale"):

garboard; garboard plank; garboard strake (the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship)

gun rest; gunnel; gunwale (wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel)

Holonyms ("wale" is a part of...):

vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

Synonyms:

wale; weal; welt; wheal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("wale" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wale

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