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Meanings of hale in inglés

portugués
obrigar
español
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"

forzar
portugués
puxar
catalán
estirar
español
carretear

To draw slowly or heavily.

carretear
catalán
nathan hale
español
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 inglés
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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