nale

• IPA^(key): /neɪl/
• Homophone: nail

nale (plural nales)

1. Obsolete form of nail.
   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso:

     They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it w^t nales and hammers, that it moue not.

• “nale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• lane, Lena, enal, lean, neal, Elan, elan, élan, Lean, ELAN, Neal, Lane, Alen, Alne

nale (plural nales)

1. alehouse
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     great feastes at the nale

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Univerbation of no +‎ ale.

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.lɛ/

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• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: na‧le

nale

1. but

• nale in silling.org