These are the meanings of the letters AHELE when you unscramble them.
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Alee (adv.)
On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.
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Hale (a.)
Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
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Hale (n.)
Welfare.
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Hale (v. t.)
To pull; to drag; to haul.
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Heal (v. t.)
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
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Heal (v. t.)
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.
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Heal (v. t.)
To remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure; -- said of a disease or a wound.
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Heal (v. t.)
To restore to original purity or integrity.
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Heal (v. t.)
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.
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Heal (v. i.)
To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over.
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Heal (v. t.)
Health.
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Heel (v. i.)
To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
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Heel (n.)
The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.
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Heel (n.)
The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.
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Heel (n.)
The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
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Heel (n.)
Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
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Heel (n.)
The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
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Heel (n.)
The after end of a ship's keel.
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Heel (n.)
The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
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Heel (n.)
In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
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Heel (n.)
The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
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Heel (n.)
The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.
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Heel (n.)
Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
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Heel (n.)
The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
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Heel (n.)
A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.
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Heel (v. t.)
To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.
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Heel (v. t.)
To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
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Heel (v. t.)
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.