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▪ I. † cale, n.1 Obs.
[a. F. cale in same sense.]
A kind of head-dress worn by women; a caul.
1588Deloney in Roxburgh Ballads (1887) VI. 391 Her Ladies..in costly cales of gold.
▪ II. † cale, n.2 Obs.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4453/4 One black Gelding..with a very large Star tending to a Cale, a charge lately laid on his Left Eye.
▪ III. cale, n.3
early northern f. kale, cole, cabbage, and cabbage broth or soup.
▪ IV. cale
see also cales.
▪ V. † cale, v. Obs.
[a. F. cale-r in same sense (= Pr., Sp. calar, It. cálare):—L. chalā-re, ad. Gr. χαλᾶ-ν to slacken, loosen, let down, lower.]
trans. To lower (sails, yards, etc.).
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 211 By the malignancie or over-mastering power of a cross winde, they should be forced to cale the hypocritical bunt. |