Wayed vs Waled - What's the difference?
wayed | waled |
(of a horse) Used to the way; broken in.
(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 an adjective wayed
is (of a horse) used to the way; broken in.As a verb waled is
(wale).wayed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A horse that is not well wayed — Selden.
waled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----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.