WALES

Wales, Cymru, Cambria

(noun) one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Proper noun

Wales (plural Waleses)

One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality

(historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.

A surname.

A city in Alaska.

A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883).

A town in Maine.

A town in Massachusetts.

A town in New York.

A city in North Dakota.

A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.

A town in Utah.

A village in Wisconsin.

Synonyms

• Welshland

• The Principality

Anagrams

• Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals

Noun

wales

plural of wale

Verb

wales

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale

Anagrams

• Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals

Source: Wiktionary

WALE

Wale, n. Etym: [AS. walu a mark of stripes or blows, probably originally, a rod; akin to Icel. völr, Goth. walus a rod, staff. sq. root146. Cf. Goal, Weal a wale.]

1. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. Holland.

2. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth. Thou 'rt rougher far, And of a coarser wale, fuller of pride. Beau & Fl.

3. (Carp.)

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

4. (Naut.) (a) pl.

Definition: 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. (b) A wale knot, or wall knot. Wale knot. (Naut.) See Wall knot, under 1st Wall.

Wale, v. t.

1. To mark with wales, or stripes.

2. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition