wale
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The fugues, meanwhile, weave something more like the wale of a domestic fabric.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022
So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
The rapper then launched into a not-suitable-for-work rant against a former magazine editor who tweeted, “if i’m trump i’m pushing the narrative that obama really put wale on his playlist in an effort to undermine his administration.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2016
Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed.
From Time ● Apr. 4, 2015
Gunwale, Gunnel, gun′el, n. the wale or upper edge of a ship's side next to the bulwarks, so called because the upper guns are pointed from it.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It is, by the by, the origin of our "valet" in its sense of boy or servant who is popularly addressed Yá waled.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
‘I might have been proclaimed on the crown of the causey,’ says Rutherford, ‘but He has so waled my cross and His vengeance that I am suffering not for my sin but for His name.’
From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte
Glencairn, He saw mischief was brewin; An' like a godly, elect bairn, He's waled us out a true ane, And sound, this day.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
“At our lang wars, in fair Scotland,I fain ha’e wish’d to be,If fifteen hundred waled wight menYou’ll grant to ride with me.”
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
After breakfast my uncle went into the sitting-room where: "He waled a portion with judicious care, 'And let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air."
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
Through sobbing and waling, he said he was sorry and couldn’t believe it had happened.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2015
Forced crying and waling is a big thing is North Korea.
From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2014
White Sox starter John Danks lasted six innings, giving up one run on three hits while waling four and striking out three.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 17, 2014
“It was all so beautiful,” she said, waling past the headquarter’s once grand entrance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2012
The lower ends should be in a small trench and have a waling piece in front of them.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss
