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Webster 1913 Edition


Eale

Eale

,
Noun.
[See
Ale
.]
Ale.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Definition 2024


eale

eale

English

Noun

eale (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)


Northern Sami

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)