Obs. rare. [? var. of WEEL sb.:—OE. wǽl.] ? A wave, current.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., II. 16. And Doris with hir daughters all: of which some cut the wales [1587 wals; rhyme whales] With splaied armes.
1636. James, Iter Lanc., 323 (1845), 11. Threescore miles from wale Of sea at Conyngton was found a whale Vppon a high downes.
