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say it: hayl
hale is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)
United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)
prolific United States writer (1822-1909)
to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
“She forced him to take a job in the city”
“He squeezed her for information”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.