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embail

embail is the obsolete form of embale.

Meaning of embale

Verb

embale (third-person singular simple present embales, present participle embaling, simple past and past participle embaled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bind up; to pack, or bundle up into a pack.
    • legs […] embayld in gilden buskins1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27

Forms of embail

third-person singular presentembails
present participleembailing
past participleembailed
pastembailed

Questions about embail

What is embail the obsolete form of?
Embail is the obsolete form of embale.

Words near embail in the dictionary

  1. emayles
  2. emb.
  3. Emba
  4. embaby
  5. embace
  6. embail
  7. embailed
  8. embailing
  9. embails
  10. embale
  11. embaled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embail (page history and authors); embale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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