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wale

[weyl] / weɪl /


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The fugues, meanwhile, weave something more like the wale of a domestic fabric.

From Washington Post Jan. 8, 2022

So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2016

The rapper then launched into a not-suitable-for-work rant against a former magazine editor who tweeted, “if i’m trump i’m pushing the narrative that obama really put wale on his playlist in an effort to undermine his administration.”

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2016

Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed.

From Time Apr. 4, 2015

Insert the 31 spokes and make an upsetting of six rows of 3-rod wale No. 5 reed.

From Practical Basketry by Anna A. Gill

I waled straight to Edmee's room, knocked, and entered at once.

From Mauprat by Stanley Young

After breakfast my uncle went into the sitting-room where: "He waled a portion with judicious care, 'And let us worship God,' he says, with solemn air."

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

Cast yourself at His feet, and see if you do not get at His hands as rare an outgate and as wonderfully waled a cross as the very best of them got.

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

Glencairn, He saw mischief was brewin; An' like a godly, elect bairn, He's waled us out a true ane, And sound, this day.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

“At our lang wars, in fair Scotland,I fain ha’e wish’d to be,If fifteen hundred waled wight menYou’ll grant to ride with me.”

From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang

Through sobbing and waling, he said he was sorry and couldn’t believe it had happened.

From Washington Times Apr. 18, 2015

Forced crying and waling is a big thing is North Korea.

From The Verge Dec. 28, 2014

White Sox starter John Danks lasted six innings, giving up one run on three hits while waling four and striking out three.

From Chicago Tribune Apr. 17, 2014

“It was all so beautiful,” she said, waling past the headquarter’s once grand entrance.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2012

First, when a pile is some distance below the bottom waling, which should be fixed as low as possible, a lot must be taken for granted, and it cannot be controlled much.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by John Henry Newman




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