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Meanings of hale in English

Portuguese
obrigar
Spanish
forzar

To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

        obrigar
        Portuguese
        puxar
        Catalan
        estirar
        Spanish
        carretear

        To draw slowly or heavily.

              puxar
              Catalan
              nathan hale
              Spanish
              nathan hale

              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)

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                    nathan hale

                    Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.

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                          Usage of hale in English
                          1
                          I must have the gentlemen to hale and draw with the mariners.
                          The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
                          2
                          Both of us are hale fellows; let us henceforth be travelling companions.
                          Second Book of Tales
                          3
                          Say but the word, and I shall hale him to your feet.
                          The President: A Novel
                          4
                          On his ninetieth birthday the hale veteran sent my wife his photograph.
                          Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography
                          5
                          The holy father was very old, but he was hale and active.
                          Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
                          6
                          But the aged inmate, though wrinkled as well, looked neat and hale.
                          Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
                          7
                          The team may not be hale and hearty but there's a pulse.
                          The Irish Times
                          8
                          He was hale and hearty, though more than eighty years of age.
                          Winning His Way
                          9
                          To Cowperwood she seemed to float, so hale and graceful was she.
                          The Titan
                          10
                          He was stout and hale, with a ruddy, always smoothly shaven face.
                          Roads of Destiny
                          11
                          Old Parslow turned up on Sunday, just eighty, but still fairly hale.
                          Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
                          12
                          To the sheets of hail rain, Kilbane gave a hale high head.
                          The Irish Times
                          13
                          Frank's grandfather has silver hair, but is still hale, erect, and strong.
                          Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
                          14
                          Thorbeorn kept hale and hearty throughout; and Gudrid took no harm.
                          Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
                          15
                          Millard Fillmore, hale and hearty in personal appearance, represented his home at Buffalo.
                          Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 / of Sixty Years in the National ...
                          16
                          The hale pauper is far better off than the invalid Duke.
                          The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
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