WALE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

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)

Meaning:

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

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.)

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