[weylz] 
| a division of the United Kingdom, in SW Great Britain. 2,766,800; 8016 sq. mi. (20,760 sq. km). |
[weyl] noun, verb, waled, wal⋅ing.| 1. | a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt. |
| 2. | the vertical rib in knit goods or a chain of loops running lengthwise in knit fabric (opposed to course ). |
| 3. | the texture or weave of a fabric. |
| 4. | Nautical.
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| 5. | Also called breast timber, ranger, waling. Engineering, Building Trades. a horizontal timber or other support for reinforcing various upright members, as sheet piling or concrete form boards, or for retaining earth at the edge of an excavation. |
| 6. | a ridge on the outside of a horse collar. |
| 7. | to mark with wales. |
| 8. | to weave with wales. |
| 9. | Engineering, Building Trades. to reinforce or fasten with a wale or wales. |
[weyl] noun, verb, waled, wal⋅ing. Scot. and North England| 1. | something that is selected as the best; choice. |
| 2. | to choose; select. |
| wale (wāl) n.
To raise marks on (the skin), as by whipping. [Middle English, from Old English, variant of walu; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| Wales (wālz) A principality of the United Kingdom west of England on the island of Great Britain. Incorporated with England since the Act of Union (1536), Wales has maintained its own distinct culture and a strong nationalist sentiment. Cardiff is the capital and the largest city. Population: 2,970,000. Word History: Although Celtic-speaking peoples were living in Britain before the arrival of the invaders from Friesland and Jutland whose languages would eventually develop into English, it was the Celts and not the invaders who came to be called "strangers" in English. Our words for the descendants of one of the Celtish peoples, Welsh, and for their homeland, Wales, come from the Old English word wealh, meaning "foreigner, stranger, Celt." Its plural wealas is the direct ancestor of Wales, literally "foreigners." The Old English adjective derived from wealh, wælisc or welisc, is the source of our Welsh. The Germanic form for the root from which wealh descended was *walh-, "foreign." We also have attested once in Old English the compound walhhnutu in a document from around 1050; its next recording appears in 1358 as walnottes. This eventually became walnut in Modern English, which is thus literally the "foreign nut." The nut was "foreign" because it was native to Roman Gaul and Italy. |
One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, occupying the western peninsula of the island of Great Britain. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff.
Note: Welsh culture is known for its writers and singers, dating back more than one thousand years to the bards (poet-singers) of the Middle Ages.
wale (wāl)
n.
A mark raised on the skin, as by a whip; a weal or welt. v. waled, wal·ing, wales
To raise marks on the skin, as by whipping.
