English Dictionary

wale

verb

To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt. / To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger. / To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.

The whales migrate every year.

意味（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?

意味（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.

意味（3）

To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.