wheal
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wheal¹
- /wiːl/
Sounds like weal, we'll (wine–whine merger), wheel · Rhymes with -iːl
Where it comes from
From Middle English whele (“boil”), from Old English *hwele (“boil”); related to Old English hwelian (“to fester, ulcerate”). Compare also Old English hwelca, hwylca (“an inflamed swelling, pustule”).
noun wheals
- A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc. A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.
verb wheals · whealing · whealed
- Synonym of wale.
wheal²
- /wiːl/
Sounds like weal, we'll (wine–whine merger), wheel · Rhymes with -iːl
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Cornish hwel.
noun wheals
- A mine. The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor, East Liscombe, and Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which ranges as usual from east to west, and are included in a space of about four miles in length.
