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wale

[wayl] / 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

I hilahila wale ia no e oe; Nou no ka hale, 129 komo mai maloko.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

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

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 might have been proclaimed on the crown of the causey,’ says Rutherford, ‘but He has so waled my cross and His vengeance that I am suffering not for my sin but for His name.’

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

“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

But just as I was growin’ vext He waled a maist judeecious text, An’, launchin’ into his prelections, Swoopt, wi’ a skirl, on a’ defections.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Already she knew that Robert must be within-sides at the head of the table, "waling the portions"; for it was Robert in his quality of family priest and judge, not the gifted Gilbert, who officiated.

From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson


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