Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
whale . - noun A variant of
wheal .
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Examples
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I faintly hope that at the last moment, as in a fairy tale when the princess is about to perish, there will appear a handsome huel on a white stallion, a savior who will deliver me into the shining kingdom of English.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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I faintly hope that at the last moment, as in a fairy tale when the princess is about to perish, there will appear a handsome huel on a white stallion, a savior who will deliver me into the shining kingdom of English.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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I have followed Molina's orthography in writing such words as _uel_ or _vel_ (English, _well_) instead of the more modern, but I think less correct way, _huel_.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Oya yeua huel mamauia, _q. n._, çan oc momamauhtiaya in aya momochiua yauyutl.
Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868
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The first part of this word, _huel_, is exactly the prefix to the names of many of the mines in Cornwall.
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A quarry, a mine, a place whereout any thing is digged C. Kuare, huel-lVean.lAtinpit. ']
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