What does HALE mean?

Definitions for HALE
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Hale, Nathan Halenoun

    a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)

  2. Hale, George Ellery Halenoun

    United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)

  3. Hale, Edward Everett Haleadjective

    prolific United States writer (1822-1909)

  4. hale, wholeverb

    exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health

    "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"

  5. coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, forceverb

    to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

    "He squeezed her for information"

  6. haul, hale, cart, dragverb

    draw slowly or heavily

    "haul stones"; "haul nets"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Haleadjective

    Healthy; sound; hearty; well complexioned.

    Etymology: This should rather be written hail, from hæl, health.

    My seely sheep like well below,
    For they been hale enough I trow,
    And liken their abode. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.

    Some of these wise partizans concluded the government had hired two or three hundred hale men, to be pinioned, if not executed, as representatives of the pretended captives. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 7.

    His stomach too begins to fail;
    Last year we thought him strong and hale,
    But now he’s quite another thing:
    I wish he may hold out ’till Spring. Jonathan Swift.

  2. To Haleverb

    To drag by force; to pull violently.

    Etymology: halen, Dutch; haler, French.

    Fly to your house;
    The plebeians have got your fellow tribune,
    And hale him up and down. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    My third comfort,
    Starr’d most unluckily, is from my breast
    Hal’d out to murder. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

    Give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him, lest he hale thee to the judge. Lu. xii. 58.

    He by the neck hath hal’d, in pieces cut,
    And set me as a mark on every butt. George Sandys.

    Thither by harpy-footed furies hal’d,
    At certain revolutions, all the damn’d
    Are brought. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

    This sinistrous gravity is drawn that way by the great artery, which then subsideth, and haleth the heart unto it. Brown.

    Who would not be disgusted with any recreation, in itself indifferent, if he should with blows be haled to it when he had no mind? John Locke.

    In all the tumults at Rome, though the people proceeded sometimes to pull and hale one another about, yet no blood was drawn ’till the time of the Gracchi. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. hale

    Hale is a term that generally refers to a person who is strong, healthy, robust, and free from any kind of disease or infirmity. It can also refer to a condition being safe and sound, implying wholeness and wellness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Haleadjective

    sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body

  2. Halenoun

    welfare

  3. Haleverb

    to pull; to drag; to haul

  4. Etymology: [OE. heil, Icel. heill; akin to E. whole. See Whole.]

Wikidata

  1. Hale

    Hale is a village and electoral ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is contiguous with the southeast of Altrincham, approximately 9 miles southwest of the city of Manchester. The earliest documented reference to Hale is in the Domesday Book of 1086, although the name of the settlement is probably as old as 7th or 8th century. The area was mostly used for agriculture; Hale grew during the medieval period to the point where Hale Barns was created as a separate settlement. Hale was historically in Cheshire. Hale, Bowdon and Hale Barns together encompass some of the wealthiest parts of England.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hale

    hāl, adj. healthy: robust: sound of body.—n. (Spens.) welfare.—n. Hale′ness. [Northern A.S. hál; the S. forms hôl, hool, produce whole. There is a parallel N. form from Norse heill.]

  2. Hale

    hāl, v.t. to drag. [A variant of haul.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. hale

    An old word for haul (which see).

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HALE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hale is ranked #362 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hale surname appeared 86,618 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 29 would have the surname Hale.

    82.2% or 71,226 total occurrences were White.
    11.4% or 9,883 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 2,096 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.2% or 1,914 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 1,031 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 468 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HALE in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HALE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of HALE in a Sentence

  1. Jonathan Crisp:

    What Timothy Hale-Cusanelli says is ridiculous.

  2. Added Kerr:

    Even being in the players dining, you look up and Seve's( Ballesteros) picture is on the wall, Hale Irwin, all the greats, and then at the end there will be one female with the trophy up there, so that's really cool, that's ground-breaking. It's just a cool week like that.

  3. William Kunstler:

    You can crucify a Jesus, you can poison a Socrates, you can hang John Brown or Nathan Hale, you can kill a Che Guevara, you can jail a Eugene Debs or a Bobby Seale. You can assassinate John Kennedy or a Martin Luther King, but the problems remain, the hangman's rope never solved a single problem except that of one man.

  4. Lou Sapienza:

    We are working with another group that has very, very detailed information on an aircraft off the coast of Alaska that we know contains either the remains of about 28 service personnel enroute to the Korean Conflict during the 1950s or former U.S. House Majority Leader Hale Boggs.

  5. Jonathan Crisp:

    Timothy Hale-Cusanelli makes extreme statements to get attention( and) offends people along the way, it was groupthink.

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