wale
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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
"Licht are ye to loup, Jamie,45 Licht are ye to loup, Licht are ye to loup the dyke, Whan I maun wale a slap."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
It is, by the by, the origin of our "valet" in its sense of boy or servant who is popularly addressed Yá waled.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The inhabitants of Java call them lawit, and the mountaineers give them the names of berongdagæ or waled.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
I waled straight to Edmee's room, knocked, and entered at once.
From Mauprat by Stanley Young
“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
All nite long the bereaved inmates uv that wunst happy but now distracted home wept and waled in agony wich wuz perfectly heart rendin.
From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast
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
The hull lay touching the vertical piles, and Hilliard, edging along a waling to the front of the wharf, felt with his foot through the darkness for the stern belting.
From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts
