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A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe;
a wheal. See Wheal. |
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A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth;
hence, the texture of cloth. |
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A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and
in position. |
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Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel;
as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of
the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc. |
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A wale knot, or wall knot. |
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To mark with wales, or stripes. |
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To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out
the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it. |
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