Wale

1. v. t. To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
2. n. A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
3. n. A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
4. n. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
5. 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.
6. n. A wale knot, or wall knot.
7. v. t. To mark with wales, or stripes.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.