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Weal v.2. World English Historical Dictionary

Weal v.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 v.2 [var. of WALE v.2, by confusion with WHEAL v.1] trans. To mark (the flesh) with weals; = WALE v.2 1.

1 1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack, i. I saw him afterwards, with his back all wealed with the lashes.

2 1820.  Clare, Poems Rural Life, 111. The lash that weal’d poor Dobbin’s hide.

3 1825.  Scott, Talism., xviii. His bare arm … wealed with the blows of the discipline.

4 1886.  Fenn, Master Cerem., xxx. Were you ever beaten—cut—and wealed with your own whip?

5   b.  absol.

6 1908.  Times, 17 Jan., 4/6. The school authorities allowed only four strokes, two on each hand, as a maximum punishment, and they must not weal.

7 1922.  Martin Puich, in Blackw. Mag., March, 355.        The knotted ropes that weal and flay,   The Captain’s heavy-handed clip, Were part and parcel of my pay   As ’prentice-boy aboard a ship.

8   Hence Wealed ppl. a., Wealing vbl. sb.

9 1841.  Tupper, Twins, xvii. (1844), 131. His wealed body, full of pains and aches and bruises.

10 1902.  Westm. Gaz., 20 Nov., 7/2. The governess and upper housemaid examined the child afterwards and found severe wealing of the back and stomach, besides bruises.

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