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
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