Gale vs Vale - What's the difference?
gale | vale |
To sing; charm; enchant.
* Court of Love
To cry; groan; croak.
To talk.
(intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
An outburst, especially of laughter.
(archaic) A light breeze.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) A song or story.
(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
A shrub, also sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale ) growing on moors and fens.
(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
(mostly, poetic) A valley.
* (rfdate) Harte
* , Hymn 214'', ''The Issues of Life and Death ,
* 19th c , ,
As a noun gale
is (label) (ship propelled primarily by oars).As a verb vale is
to be worth.gale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) galen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
- Can he cry and gale .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a gale of laughter
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- (Toone)
Coordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, hurricane, stormSee also
* Beaufort scaleVerb
(gal)Etymology 3
(etyl) (en)Noun
(Myrica gale) (Webster 1913)Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
References
Anagrams
* ----vale
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) , from (etyl) vallis, vallesNoun
(en noun)- In those fair vales , by nature formed to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease
- Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
- "Make me a cottage in the vale ," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.