Definizione monolingua

hale

hale (third-person singular simple present hales, present participle haling, simple past and past participle haled)

1. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.6:

     For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.

   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 262:

     They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

hale (uncountable)

1. Health, welfare.

hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)

1. (archaic) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     ""Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,"" quoth Robin, ""thou seemest happy this merry morn.""

     ""Ay, that am I,"" quoth the jolly Butcher, ""and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?""

Definizione dizionario hale

condurre a forza

fresco

gagliardo

robusto

sano

tirare

trascinare

vegeto

vigoroso

Altri significati:

Health, welfare.

(archaic) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

sound, entire, healthy, robust, not impaired

To drag, pull, especially forcibly.