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Wailer vs Waile - What's the difference?

wailer | waile |

As a noun wailer

is one who wails or laments.

As a verb waile is

obsolete spelling of lang=en.

wailer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who wails or laments.
  • A hired (professional) mourner.

    • Synonyms

    * (hired mourner) moirologist (rare)

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    * English terms with homophones

    waile

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Among the rest by fortune overthrowne, I am not least, that most may waile her fate: My fame and brute, abroad the world is blowne, Who can forget a thing thus done so late? }}