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noun

Wheal n. A pustule; a whelk.

Wheal n.

A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.

Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.

Wheal n. (Mining) A mine.

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Etymology of 'Wheal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... specimen. His face and throat were streaked with black. There was an angry wheal across his cheek. One of the genus tramp would have scorned his charred clothes. Keith cared for none of these details. He wanted to unload his ...

— Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West • William MacLeod Raine

... cried, in a snarling sob. "You dog!" And his lash came down and cut a long red wheal across Sir Oliver's ...

— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... as thin encrustations with a mammillary surface; occasionally, however, it is earthy and pulverulent. The colour varies considerably. from colourless to yellow, brown, blue or green. Specimens of a brilliant sky-blue colour, such as those found formerly in Wheal Haniblyn, near Bridestowe in Devonshire, and in Sardinia, are specially attractive in appearance; the colour is here due to the presence of the copper mineral chrysocolla. The hardness is 3, and the specific gravity 1.9. Chemically, it is a hydrous aluminium silicate, ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... to a miner, over to Wheal Jewel, in Illogan Parish; but got conversion fifteen years since, an' now I go about praising the Name. I've been miner, cafender, cooper, mason, seaman, scissor-grinder, umbrella-mender, holli-bubber, all by turns. I sticks my hands in my pockets, an' ...

— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... he cried, in a snarling sob. "You dog!" And his lash came down and cut a long red wheal across Sir Oliver's ...

— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini