Hale

HALE, sb.2 Lan. Lin. Mid. Also in form hal Lan. [ēl.] 1. A piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river; a sand-bank. See Haugh. Cf. eale. Lan. N. & Q. (1870) 4th S. v. 570. n.Lin.1 An angular pasture in the township of East Butterwick, adjoining Bottesford Beck on the North, is called Butterwick Hale. It has been used from an early period as a rest for the high-land water in flood time, until it could flow into the Trent. 2. A triangular corner of land, a ‘gair’; a bank or strip of grass, separating lands in an open field. Lin. Streatfeild Lin. and Danes (1884) 335. n.Lin.1 Mid. There is a piece of low land in Tottenham between the High Cross and the railway station called Tottenham Hale, or more commonly the Hale, N. & Q. (1868) 4th S. ii. 405.

HALE, sb.3 e.An. [ēl.] A heap of anything, a mangold clamp; a long range or pile of bricks set out to dry in the open air before being burned. e.An.1 Nrf. A mangold hale (E.M.); Potatoes, roots, &c. buried in heaps are said to be in hales (U.W.).

HALE, v.1 Sc. Nhb. Cum. Yks. Lin. Dor. Also written hail Sc. Nhb.1 sw.Lin.1 [h)ēl, h)eəl.] 1. To pour or empty out, as water from a vessel by inclining it to one side; to bale. Cf. heel, v.2 n.Yks. Thah neeam is as ointment haled out, Robinson Sng. Sol. (1860) i. 3; n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 Hale me out another cup; n.Yks.4, ne.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 Lin. Hale out the water, Thompson Hist. Boston (1856) 708; Lin.1 Dor. Gl. (1851). 2. To flow, run down in a large stream; to pour. Sc. Drops of blude frae Rose the Red Came hailing to the groun', Child Ballads (1886) II. 418; ‘It's hailin on’ or ‘down’ is commonly used with respect to a heavy rain (Jam.). Abd. They are posting on whate'er they may Baith het and meeth, till they are haling down, Ross Helenore (1768) 79, ed. 1812. Lnk. Facht when they were kiss'd or huggit, Till the sweat cam' hailin' doon, Nicholson Kilwuddie (ed. 1895) 26. Nhb.1 Aa rout [wrought] till the sweet hailed off us. Cum.2 Lin. The sweat hales of'n me o' nights, Streatfeild Lin. and Danes (1884) 335. sw.Lin.1 The sweat hailed offen him. [1. Norw. dial. halla, to incline or tilt a vessel (Aasen); so Icel. (Zoëga); ON. halla, to lean or turn sideways. 2. The teris began fast to hale owre hir chekis, Bellenden Livy (1533), ed. 1822, 101.]

HALE, v.2 and sb.4 Sc. Nhb. Cum. Yks. Lan. Wor. Shr. Hrt. e.An. Hmp. w.Cy. Wil. Som. Cor. Also written hail Sh.&Ork.1 Cum.3 e.Yks.; haill Abd.; hayl Lan.; and in form ally Wor. [h)ēl, h)eəl.] 1. v. To haul; to draw forcibly, pull; to drag along; to load. Sh.I. Hails wi' an easy tow, an' comes ashore wi' forty wys o' white fish, Stewart Tales (1892) 14. Abd. There blind zeall to the Couenant did so haill them on to their own destruction, Turreff Antiq. Gleanings (1859) 57. Per. That stead Where yee did hail your shaft unto the head, Ford Harp (1893) 3. Gall. As the Dominie and I were haled away, Crockett Grey Man (1896) 305. n.Cy. (J. Losh) (1783). Nhb.1 Cum.1; Cum.3 I hail't Jonathan out fray amang them. e.Yks. Soe need they not to trouble themselves with hailinge on soe much att once, Best Rur. Econ. (1641) 50. Shr.2 Confined to the river side and chiefly to men or horses drawing small or large craft on the Severn against the stream. Hmp. Grose (1790) MS. add. (M.) Wil. (K.M.G.) Som. Ploughmen have been haleing bells, Hervey Wedmore Chron. (1887) I. 79. w.Cor. ‘I can neither hale them nor hāve [heave] them.’ Said by an old woman with rheumatism in her feet (M.A.C.). Hence (1) Haler or Hayler, sb. one who works or does anything energetically and effectively; (2) Hale-to, sb. the movement of a rake in raking up grain, &; (3) Haling-muff, sb. a mitten used by fishermen to protect their hands when hauling the lines into the boat; (4) Haling-way, sb. a towing-path; cf. hauling-path, s.v. Haul, v.1; (5) Halster, sb. one who tows a barge alongside a river by means of a rope. (1) Cum.1 Cum.2 Lan. He is a hayler at it, R. Piketah Forness Flk. (1870) 38. (2) Hrt. A man with one motion or hale-to on each side of him will rake up a parcel of grain in a trice, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) V. ii. (3) Sh.&Ork.1 (4) Cmb. N. & Q. (1860) 2nd S. ix. 51. (5) w.Cy. (Hall.) 2. To carry on the trade of a carrier, to cart, carry. Wor. E've got a 'oss an' cart... an' does allyin', Vig. Mon. in Berrow's Jrn. (Mar. 9, 1895) 4, col. 3; It's him as bin allying on this road (H.K.). Wil. (K.M.G.) 3. To breathe heavily, pant; to inhale; also in phr. to hale for breath. Suf. e.An. Dy. Times (1892); (C.T.) e.Suf. (F.H.) 4. sb. A haul of fish. Sh.I. I can mind wis takin' forty o' him [turbot], grit an' sma', apo' ae hail i' da deep water, Sh. News (July 10, 1897); Efter we set aff fir a mornin' hail, I lays me doon i' da fore-head i' da bight o' da sail, Stewart Tales (1892) 243. [1. Halyn or drawyn, traho, Prompt.; What that on may hale, that other let, CHAUCER Parl. Foules, 151. OFr. haler, ‘tirer’ (La Curne).]

HALE, adj. and sb.5 Sc. Nhb. Dur. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Also ? Ken. ? Dor. ? Som. Also written hail Sc. Bnff.1 Nhb.1 Dor.; haill Sc.; hayl Wm.; and in forms haal w.Yks.1; hael Sh.I. Nhb.1; heaal Cum.; heal Sc. w.Yks.1; heale Cum. Wm.; heall Cum.1; heeal, heeall Wm. n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4 ne.Yks.1 e.Yks.1; heyel Nhb.1; hiyal Wm.; hyal Dur.1 n.Lan.; hyel, hyell N.Cy.1 Nhb.1; yal n.Yks.2 ne.Yks.1 [h)ēl, h)eəl, hīl, hiəl.] 1. adj. Free from injury; safe, sound, unhurt. Sc. It's good sleeping in a haill skin, Scott Bride of Lam. (1819) vi. Sh.I. Get me... my sea-breeks, An' see dey're hale afore, Stewart Tales (1892) 92. Bch. Paris... gart me wish I were awa' While I had a hale skin, Forbes Ulysses (1785) 21. Kcd. Pantaloons and guid black breeks, If they be hale and hae the steeks, Jamie Muse (1844) 45. Frf. His hyde, they said, was heal an' sound, Piper of Peebles (1794) 16. Rnf. Ye [a pair of shoes] did right weel whan ye war hale, Picken Poems (1813) I. 33. Ayr. Lord, remember singing Sannock, Wi' hale-breeks, saxpence, an' a bannock, Burns Lett. to J. Tennant, l. 47. Dmf. Routh o' potatoes ─ champit an' hale I' their ragged jackets, Thom Jock o' Knowe (1878) 39. Peb. With bonnet black, too, old, but hale, Lintoun Green (1685) 37, ed. 1817. n.Cy. Border Gl. (Coll. L.L.B.) Hence (1) Hale-headit, adj. unhurt; whole and entire; (2) Hale-hearted, adj. of unbroken spirit; (3) Hale-hide, see (1); (4) Hale-scart, adj. without a scratch, unhurt, wholly safe; also used fig.; (5) Hale-skinnt, adj. having a whole skin without sores or disease. (1) Sc., Abd. (Jam.) (2) Edb. Bronze-browed, ruddy-cheeked, and hale-hearted as I am, Ballantine Gaberlunzie (ed. 1875) 12. (3) Bch. But he gaed aff hale-hide frae you For a' your windy voust, Forbes Ajax (1785) 28. (4) Sc. Symon and Janet his dame, Halescart frae the wars without skaithing, Chambers Sngs. (1829) II. 347. Ayr. Lord, let us a' aff haill-scart at the last if aiblins it be within t'e compass o' Thy power! Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 21. Rxb. In spite o' dool, haith here we're hale-scart yet, A. Scott Poems (ed. 1808) 159. (5) Bnff.1 We canna be our thankfou' it w'ir hail-skinnt, fin we see yon peer thing a' our wee cruels. 2. Healthy, sound, vigorous; health-giving, wholesome. Sc. Broken bread makes hail bairns, Ramsay Prov. (1737). Sh.I. An' you an' I be hael an' weel, Stewart Tales (1892) 244. Elg. Donald's still in Donald's trews, Hale, weel, an' livin', Tester Poems (1865) 97. Abd. Hale be your heart, my canty Cock, Cock Strains (1810) I. 125. Kcd. The Piper is dune out, Although he be baith hale and stout, Jamie Muse (1844) 104. Frf. Young guidmen, fond, stark an' hale, Morison Poems (1790) 16. Per. As hale and hearty as a three-year-auld bairn, Sandy Scott (1897) 21. Fif. Men ferdy-limb'd and swank and hale, Tennant Papistry (1827) 92. Dmb. His thrifty wife, tho' heal and leal, Whiles canna bake for want o' meal, Taylor Poems (1827) 70. Rnf. Ane may be hale, an' weel in health the day, Picken Poems (1813) l. 21. Ayr. We maun hae a little more of your balsamic advice, to make a' heal among us, Galt Provost (1822) xlvi. Lnk. Three hale and healthy bairnies, Wardrop J. Mathison (1881) 97. Lth. I ferlie gin in palace, or in lordly ha', Their hearts are a' as hale, as in our cot sae sma’, Ballantine Poems (1856) 148. Edb. Wholesome, hale, historic food, Forbes Poems (1812) 6. Dmf. Take ye a lassie tight and heal, Shennan Tales (1831) 61. Nhb. For we are hale an' hearty baith, Coquetdale Sngs. (1852) 59. Ken.2 Hale weather. Dor. Barnes Gl. (1863). Som. I did nev'r see her look more hale an' dapper than her do just now, Leith Lemon Verbena (1895) 6. 3. Phr. (1) hale an' a-hame, quite at home, in one's element; in good spirits; (2) hale and fere, in perfect health, strong, healthy; (3) to be hale o' mair, to recover, to get over (an illness, &c.). (1) Lnk. He's [Cupid] hale an' a-hame amang touslin' an' kissin', Watson Poems (1853) 50. (2) Per. Spunky, hale, an' fere, Gleg ─ he kens his bis'ness, Stewart Character (1857) 67. Slg. It was sturdy, hale, an' fier, Wi' sock an' couter bright an' clear, Muir Poems (1818) 8. Ayr. As lang's we're hale and fier, Burns Ep. to Davie (1784) st. 2. Edb. Thinking to... look baith hail an' fier, Till at the lang-run Death dirks in, Fergusson Poems (1773) 199, ed. 1785. Gall. I hae tooted it owre in nogginfus now for mair than a hunner year, and am tae fore yet hale and fear, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 4, ed. 1876. (3) Sh.I. If puir Girzzie is gotten her endin' strake ta day, he's a job 'at A'll no be hale o' mair, ta da grave, Sh. News (Aug. 28, 1897). 4. Whole, entire, complete. Also used advb. Sc. However the haill hive was ower mony for me at last, Scott Nigel (1822) iii. Sh.I. We wid a hed da hael trave o' da bairns ower, bit da sküle lay i' da hill, Burgess Sketches (2nd ed.) iii. Cai.1 Bnff. The bare and simple name of MacGregor made that hail clan to presume on their power, Gordon Chron. Keith (1880) 36. Abd. I cured the hale complainin' gang For nought ava, Cadenhead Bon Accord (1853) 159. Frf. The hail night thro', Sands Poems (1833) 44. Per. For twa hale hours he preached, Cleland Inchbracken (1883) ii, ed. 1887. Fif. Great baps and scones were swallow'd hail, Tennant Papistry (1827) 53. Rnf. Afore the hail assembl'd rout, Wi' scornfu' hiss deride ye, Picken Poems (1813) I. 109. Ayr. The haill clanjamphrey of the toon and kintra-side, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 68. Lnk. I was half crazy made wi' their clavers, An' hale wi' her twa lauchin' een, Nicholson Idylls (1870) 76. Lth. Through a' the hale parish, Ballantine Poems (1856) 2. Edb. The hale house thought she had followed my faither, Ballantine Gaberlunzie (ed. 1875) 231. Peb. Tho' ye seek the hale creation, Affleck Poet. Wks. (1836) 84. Gall. Able in a het contention For to outwit a hale convention, Lauderdale Poems (1796) 211. Kcb. A sonsier pair ye wadna seen In a' the hale warl’ wide, Armstrong Ingleside (1890) 41. N.Cy.1 Nhb. Gan finely clad the hyell year roun', Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 33; Nhb.1, Dur.1 Cum. T'wad shem the heale parish, Rayson Misc. Poems (1858) 56; Aa cud trot am about for a heall day, Dickinson Joe and Geol. (1866) 6. Wm. Meh hayl fraym iz affected, Blezard Sngs. (1848); The Armstrongs an Hardens, an aw' the heale gang, Whitehead Leg. (1859) 7; Thoos geean an spilt a heeal meeal a new milk, Spec. Dial. (1885) pt. iii. 6. n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4, ne.Yks.1 e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1788). w.Yks.1 Thank God for 'em, wi' or haal heart, ii. 312. n.Lan. There was a hyal famaly on um, Lonsdale Mag. (Jan. 1867) 270. Hence (1) Haellens, adv. certainly, completely; (2) Hailly or Halelie, adv. wholly, utterly; (3) Haleumlie or Helimly, adv., see (1); (4) Yalseeal, adj. wholesale, plentiful. (1) Sh.I. Ta tell da truth I haellens tought Sibbie wis noo geen juist far enouegh wi' trying mi patience, Sh. News (May 15, 1897). (2) Fif. The sinfu' bodies o' the Elie Were spain'd frae image-worship hailly, Tennant Papistry (1827) 12. Slg. A fear to devour them halelie at the last, Bruce Sermons (1631) iv, ed. 1843. w.Yks.1 Gie thersels haally to'th’ sarvice, ii. 323. (3) Abd. For fan I saw you, I thought haleumlie That ye wad never speak again to me, Ross Helenore (1768) 13, ed. 1812; O yon dreadfu' crack I haleumlie thought wad ha been our wrack, ROSS Helenore 81. (4) n.Yks. They gat them by yalseeal (I.W.). 5. Comb. (1) Hael-an-hadden, entire, complete; (2) Hale-head, in phr. to go hale-head errand, to go on express or sole purpose; (3) Hale-lot, a considerable number, a ‘whole lot’; (4) Hale-oot drinks, a toast; see below; (5) Hale-ruck, the sum total of a person's property; (6) Hale-water, a heavy fall of rain; (7) Hale-wheel, in wholesale fashion, in quick succession; (8) Hale-wort, the whole number or amount. (1) Sh.I. In aess o hael-an-hadden worls, Burgess Rasmie (1892) 62. (2) Cai.1 (3) e.Yks.1 The' was a heeal-lot o' fooaks there. (4) Sc. Here Allan studied and practised Hy-Jinks, and once at least fell a victim to the game of ‘haill oot drinks,’ Haliburton Puir Auld Scot. (1887) 59. Per. ‘Hail oot drinks! come what will empty your glasses.’ The chairman at a dinner-party gave out this toast, and on this account became intoxicated, and fell a victim to the game of ‘hail oot drinks’ (G.W.). (5) Rxb. (Jam.) (6) Sc. The rain, which fell almost in hale water, as we say, has washed away half the school-master's kail-yard, Glenfergus (1820) I. 203 (Jam.). N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 In a thunder shower the rain is said to be comin' doon hail (or hyel) watter. Cum. Just heaal watter cumman slap doon ontah yan eh gegginfuls, Sargisson Joe Scoap (1881) 200; Cum.1 Wm. ‘Is't rainen when ye com in?’ ‘Aye, is't, ebben doon hiyal watter, as yan says’ (B.K.). (7) Abd. He had been sen'in' them to Lunnon b' the dizzen ilka ither ouk, hale-wheel, this file, Alexander Ain Flk. (1882) 121. (8) Slk. I wish ye be nae the deil's bairns, the halewort o' ye! Hogg Tales (1838) 51, ed. 1866; If he made weel through wi' his hides mayhap he wad pay the hale wort, HOGG Perils of Man (1822) III. 283 (Jam.). 6. sb. Health, comfort, welfare. Cf. heal, sb.1 Abd. Health and hale, Cock Strains (1810) I. 81. Ayr. My hale and weal I'll tak a care o't, Burns To Mitchell (1795) st. 5. 7. The whole, the whole amount or number; the sum-total. Sc. I adhere to all and haill upon all perils whatsomever, Thomson Cloud of Witnesses (1714) 391, ed. 1871. Ayr. Half o' the hale dung aff their feet, Then is a victory complete, Boswell Poet. Wks. (1816) 166, ed. 1871. Lth. The hale o' his pack he has now on his back, Macneill Poet. Wks. (1801) 217, ed. 1856. Wgt. The ban' cheers the haill o' the streets roun' an' roun', Fraser Poems (1885) 51. Cum. I'll try to be happy the hale o' the day, Gilpin Ballads (1874) 172. ne.Yks.1 Ah've deean t'heeal on't. 8. Phr. in hale, altogether, the whole sum. Edb. Gied ye in a shoeing bill, 'Twas twenty shillings sax in hale, Liddle Poems (1821) 110. Peb. My tocher's fifty pound in hale, Affleck Poet. Wks. (1836) 81. 9. Whole coal, as distinguished from coal that has been partly worked. Nhb. Though still they're i' the hyell a' hewin', Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 59; Nhb.1 [1. Þou sal baþ sounde & hale come of þis ship to lande, Cursor M. (c. 1300) 24888. OE. hāl, safe (Matt. x. 22).]

HALE, see Hal, Hall, sb.12, Heal, v.2, Hell, sb.

‡HALE, sb. Obs. Sus. A land measure of unknown extent, mentioned in the Amberley Court Rolls. (F.E.S.)