Wale

1.

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

A wale knot, or wall knot.

1.

(TRANSITIVE) To mark with wales, or stripes.

2.

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