Dale vs Wale - What's the difference?
dale | wale |
(UK) a valley in an otherwise hilly area.
* Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,'' - ''
A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
A ridge or low barrier.
A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course)
The texture of a piece of fabric.
(nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.
* 1832: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political
* 2002: Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
To give a surface a texture of wales.
to choose, select.
As nouns the difference between dale and wale
is that dale is a valley in an otherwise hilly area while wale is a ridge or low barrier.As a proper noun Dale
is {{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living in a dale.As a verb wale is
to strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.dale
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
Synonyms
* dell, dells * vale * valleyAnagrams
* * * * ----wale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wale, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)
- (Holland)
Verb
(wal)- Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?
- When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.