eale

English

Noun

eale (countable and uncountable, plural eales)

  1. Obsolete form of ale.
    • Shakespeare, Hamlet (act 1 scene 4)
      Hamlet: As infinite as man may undergo--
      Shall in the general censure take corruption
      From that particular fault: the dram of eale
      Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
      To his own scandal.
  2. Alternative form of yale (mythical beast)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Northern Sami

Pronunciation
  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈe̯ale/

Verb

eale

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Yola

Noun

eale (plural eales)

  1. eel

References
  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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