Wheal vs Blister - What's the difference?
wheal | blister |
A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
(UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) A mine.
* 1829 , Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire ,
* 2003 , Peter Long, The Hidden Places of Cornwall ,
* 2010 , , Julia Bradbury's Railway Walks ,
A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
* Grainger
A swelling on a plant.
(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.168:
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
(roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities
To cause blisters to form.
*
To criticise severely.
To break out in blisters.
As nouns the difference between wheal and blister
is that wheal is a small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc or wheal can be (uk|dialect|cornwall|mining) a mine while blister is a small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.As a verb blister is
to cause blisters to form.wheal
English
Etymology 1
Compare wale. (wikipedia wheal)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* wale * weal * weltEtymology 2
From (etyl) hwel.Noun
(en noun)page 528,
- The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal' Crowndale, '''Wheal''' Crebor, East Liscombe, and ' Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which ranges as usual from east to west, and are included in a space of about four miles in length.
page 85,
- Surrounding the village are the remains ot many mine workings including the picturesque gtoup of clifftop buildings thar were once part of one of the county's best known mines - Wheal Coares.
page 27,
- If you look at the map there are ‘wheals’ all over the place. There's Wheal' Rose, '''Wheal''' Plenty and '''Wheal''' Busy. Back on the tramroad the industrial communities come thick and fast as you head southeast to ' Wheal Rose.
Usage notes
Chiefly appears in the names of mines in Cornwall and Devon.Anagrams
* English terms with homophonesblister
English
Noun
(wikipedia blister) (en noun)- Painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
- (Dunglison)
- 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister , a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well [...].
- blister card
- blister pack