Haled vs Waled - What's the difference?
haled | waled |
(hale)
(archaic) Health, welfare.
* Spenser
Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
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* 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :
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* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
(wale)
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 verbs the difference between haled and waled
is that haled is past tense of hale while waled is past tense of wale.haled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*hale
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- All heedless of his dearest hale .
Etymology 2
Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- Last year we thought him strong and hale .
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
- "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
Antonyms
* unhaleUsage notes
* Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".Etymology 3
From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).Verb
(hal)- For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
- The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..
- They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.
Anagrams
* * ----waled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----wale
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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.