wheals

Noun (1)

wheal (plural wheals)

1. A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
   • A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred...

   Synonyms:

   wale, weal, welt

Noun (2)

wheal (plural wheals)

1. (Australia, Cornwall, South) A mine.
   • The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor, East Liscombe, and Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which ranges as usual from east to west, and are included in a space of about four miles in length.1829, Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire, page 528

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