waled

Verb (1)

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
   • Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?1832, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political
2. To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
   • When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.2002, Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
3. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.

Verb (2)

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To choose, select.

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