vaile
See also: văile
Middle English
Noun
vaile
- (Late Middle English) alternative form of vale
Norman
Etymology
From Old French voile, veile, from Vulgar Latin *vēla, from the plural of Latin vēlum.
Noun
vaile f (plural vailes)
Derived terms
- am'ner la vaile (“to strike sail”)
- êcoute d'eune vaile (“sheet of a sail”)
- grand' vaile (“mainsail”)
- lof d'eune vaile (“luff of sail”)
- navithe à vailes, vailyi (“sailing ship”)
- patchi ses vailes (“to die”)
- pic d'eune vaile (“peak of sail”)
- plianche à vaile (“wind sail”)
- ris d'vaile (“reef”)
- rîsi eune vaile (“to reef”)
- vaile d'artimon (“mizzen”)
- vaile d'avant, vaile dé mîsaine (“foresail”)
- vaile dé pèrrotchet (“gallant-sail”)
- vaile dé sprède (“spritsail”)
- vither la vaile (“to stay, put over to opposite tack”)