Wale

·noun A wale knot, or wall knot.

II. Wale ·vt To mark with wales, or stripes.

III. Wale ·noun A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

IV. Wale ·noun A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.

V. Wale ·noun A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. ·see Wheal.

VI. Wale ·vt To Choose; to Select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

VII. Wale ·noun 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.