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Wale vs Kale - What's the difference?

wale | kale |

As nouns the difference between wale and kale

is that wale is : whales while kale is horse (equus caballus ).

wale

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wale, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Knight)
  • A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
  • A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
    • (Holland)

    Verb

    (wal)
  • To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale.
  • * 1832: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political
    • 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?
  • * 2002: Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
    • 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.
  • To give a surface a texture of wales.

    • See also

    * whale * weal * wheal

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . More at will.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

    • Verb

  • to choose, select.

    • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Fulniô==

    Noun

    (head)

    • References

    * 2009' (originally '''1968 ), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland, ''Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version , Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19. ----

    kale

    English

    (wikipedia kale)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head ( )
  • (slang) money
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , author=(Edgar Rice Burroughs) , title=The Efficiency Expert citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=I’ll bet he takes nine-tenths of his kale from women and children, and he’s an honored citizen. }}
  • Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea .

    • Synonyms

    * borecole

    Anagrams

    * ----