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hale

Pronunciation: /heɪl/

The English word “hale” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

noun

  1. Health, welfare.

verb

  1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

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.

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