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    WALE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    strake; wale

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    wale; weal; welt; wheal

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wale

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