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語源 1

From 中期英語 whele (“boil”), from 古期英語 *hwele (“boil”); related to 古期英語 hwelian (“to fester, ulcerate”). Compare also 古期英語 hwelca, hwylca (“an inflamed swelling, pustule”).

名詞

wheal (plural wheals)

1. A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 80:

     A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 22:

     So they gripped again until red wheals rose on their backs and shoulders by reason of the grievous clasping of their arms.

同意語

• (small raised swelling on the skin): wale, weal, welt

派生語

動詞

wheal (third-person singular simple present wheals, present participle whealing, simple past and past participle whealed)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of wale.

語源 2

Borrowed from Cornish hwel.

名詞

wheal (plural wheals)

1. (Cornwall, South Australia, mining) A mine.
   • 1829, Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire, page 528:

     The four last-mentioned mines, Wheal Crowndale, Wheal Crebor, East Liscombe, and Wheal Tamar, are on the same lode, which ranges as usual from east to west, and are included in a space of about four miles in length.

   • 2003, Peter Long, The Hidden Places of Cornwall, page 85:

     Surrounding the village are the remains ot many mine workings including the picturesque gtoup of clifftop buildings thar were once part of one of the county's best known mines - Wheal Coares.

   • 2010, Julia Bradbury, Julia Bradbury's Railway Walks, page 27:

     If you look at the map there are ‘wheals’ all over the place. There's Wheal Rose, Wheal Plenty and Wheal Busy. Back on the tramroad the industrial communities come thick and fast as you head southeast to Wheal Rose.

使用する際の注意点

Chiefly appears in the names of mines in Cornwall and Devon.

派生語

• Wheal Busy
• Wheal Rose

参照

• “wheal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Whale, whale