Wale

[weɪl] or [wel]

解释:

(noun.) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.

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

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解释:

(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.

(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.

(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.

(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.

(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.

校对:梅勒妮

同义词及近义词：

n. Ridge (made by stripes on the skin), whelk, stripe, streak, mark of the lash.

阿曼德录入

解释:

n. (Scot.) the choice or pick of anything.—v.t. to choose.

n. a raised streak left by a stripe: a ridge on the surface of cloth: a plank all along the outer timbers on a ship's side.—v.t. to mark with wales.—n. Wā′ler one who chastises severely.

录入:曼蒂