wale

Coordinate term: course

Crepon cloths, with their heavy crape-like wale, are a noteworthy part of the season's importations.

The strakes between the several ranges of ports, beginning from under the upper-deck ports of a three-decked ship in the royal navy, are called the channel wale, the middle wale, and the main wale.

A few feet below the first wale another timber is inserted, likewise secured by struts.

Except Plank upon the Head of the Key, and under the upper Wale, and Plank to join the piles.

The wale is shaped to the size of the horse's neck, and then sewn together, with a flap, known as the 'barge', left free along one side. To this 'barge' the body of the collar is sewn.

Shall then that foule infamous Cyneds hide Laugh at the purple wales of others side?