These are the meanings of the letters CHAWLE when you unscramble them.
- Chela (n.)
The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
- Leach (n.)
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
- Leach (n.)
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
- Leach (n.)
See 3d Leech.
- Leach (n.)
See Leech, a physician.
- Leach (v. i.)
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
- Leach (v. t.)
To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
- Leach (v. t.)
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
- Welch (a.)
See Welsh.
- Whale (n.)
Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
- Wheal (n.)
A mine.
- Wheal (n.)
A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.
- Wheal (n.)
A pustule; a whelk.
- Wheal (n.)
Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.