hale
/heɪl/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms haler halest hales haling haled
- adjective (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
- noun (archaic) Health, welfare.
- verb (transitive) To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
- proper noun A topographic surname from Old English.
- proper noun A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4682).
- proper noun A hamlet in Beetham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5078).
- proper noun A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ7786).
- proper noun A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1818).
- proper noun A hamlet south of Gillingham, Medway borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7765).
- proper noun A hamlet in Cucklington parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7527).
- proper noun A suburban village in the north of Farnham parish, Waverley district, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8448).
Synonyms
Nathan Hale George Ellery Hale Edward Everett Hale coerce squeeze pressure force haul cart drag whole
Antonyms
Etymology
From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”, whence whole), from Old English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.
From Middle English hale, an alteration of hele (“health”) after Etymology 1. Cognate with Scots hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).
From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English ġeholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cellō (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek κελέων (keléōn, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.
* As an English surname, Old English dative form of halh (“hollow, nook”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English hæle (“hero”). Compare Hain.
* As an Irish surname, from mac céile; see McHale.
* As a Jewish surname, variant of Halle.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
- noun Welfare. [Obs.]
- verb To pull; to drag; to haul. See Haul. Chaucer.
Etymology [Written also heil, Icel. heill; akin to E. whole. See Whole.]
Etymology [OE. halen, halien; cf. AS. holian, to acquire, get. See Haul.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hale”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details