These are the meanings of the letters WAEL when you unscramble them.
- Wale (n.)
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
- Wale (n.)
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
- Wale (n.)
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- Wale (n.)
A wale knot, or wall knot.
- Wale (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.
- Wale (v. t.)
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
- Wale (v. t.)
To mark with wales, or stripes.
- Weal (adv.)
A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
- Weal (adv.)
The body politic; the state; common wealth.
- Weal (n.)
The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
- Weal (v. t.)
To mark with stripes. See Wale.
- Weal (v. t.)
To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.