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Weal sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Weal sb.2 [A mod. variant of WALE sb.1, by confusion with WHEAL sb.1, a pustule: see WHEAL sb.2] The mark or ridge raised on the flesh by the blow of a rod, lash, etc.; = WALE sb.1 2, WHEAL sb.2

1 1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., etc. II. 68. Who, soon as mounted, with his switching weals, Puts Dob’s best swiftness in his heavy heels.

2 1842.  Lover, Handy Andy, iv. From shoulder to flank, sir, I am one mass of welts and weals.

3 1845.  Darwin, Voy. Nat., vi. (1852), 111. He told us that his legs were marked by great weals, where the thong had wound round as if he had been flogged with a whip.

4 1872.  Tennyson, Last Tourn., 58. His visage ribb’d From ear to ear with dogwhip-weals.

5 1909.  Conan Doyle, Green Flag, etc., 185. Black and bitter were the thoughts of Frenchmen when they saw this weal of dishonour slashed across the fair face of their country.

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