WALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wale mean? 

• WALE (noun)
  The noun WALE has 2 senses:

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

2. thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship

  Familiarity information: WALE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

wale; weal; welt; wheal

Hypernyms ("wale" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

strake; wale

Hypernyms ("wale" is a kind of...):

board; plank (a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wale"):

garboard; garboard plank; garboard strake (the first wale laid next to the keel of a wooden ship)

gun rest; gunnel; gunwale (wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel)

Holonyms ("wale" is a part of...):

vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)