wale

wale is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
2. noun. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
3. noun. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
4. 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.
5. noun. A wale knot, or wall knot.
6. transitive verb. To mark with wales, or stripes.
7. transitive verb. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
8. noun. thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship

   Synonyms: strake

9. noun. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions

   Synonyms: weal, welt, wheal

Synonyms

strake, weal, welt, wheal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wale:

alew, weal

Common word forms

waled, waler, wales, waling

Words from these letters

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