Meaning of hale | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Health, welfare.
   archaic, uncountable
2. A topographic surname from Old English.
3. A place name:
4. A number of places in England:
5. A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4682).
6. A hamlet in Beetham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5078).
7. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ7786).
8. A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1818).
9. A hamlet south of Gillingham, Medway borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7765).
10. A hamlet in Cucklington parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7527).
11. A suburban village in the north of Farnham parish, Waverley district, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8448).
12. A number of places in the United States:
13. An unincorporated community in Yuma County, Colorado.
14. An unincorporated community in Jones County, Iowa.
15. An unincorporated community in Salt Creek Township, Chautauqua County, Kansas.
16. An unincorporated community in Plainfield Township, Iosco County, Michigan.
17. A neighbourhood in southern Minneapolis, Minnesota.
18. A minor city in Carroll County, Missouri.
19. A ghost town in Carbon County, Utah.
20. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
21. A locality on the Algoma Central Railway, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
22. A town in Korogwe District, eastern Tanzania.
23. A locality in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia, named after the Hale River.

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Examples

“Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle, / And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle.”

“Eftſoones all heedleſſe of his deareſt hale, / Full greedily into the heard he thruſt: / To ſlaughter them, and vvorke their finall bale, / Leaſt that his toyle ſhould of their troups be bruſt.”

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