These are the meanings of the letters PALEW when you unscramble them.
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Leap (n.)
A basket.
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Leap (n.)
A weel or wicker trap for fish.
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Leap (v. i.)
To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.
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Leap (v. i.)
To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.
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Leap (v. t.)
To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
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Leap (v. t.)
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
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Leap (v. t.)
To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
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Leap (n.)
The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.
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Leap (n.)
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
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Leap (n.)
A fault.
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Leap (n.)
A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
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Pale (v. i.)
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
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Pale (v. i.)
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
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Pale (n.)
Paleness; pallor.
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Pale (v. i.)
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
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Pale (v. t.)
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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Pale (n.)
A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
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Pale (n.)
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
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Pale (n.)
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
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Pale (n.)
A stripe or band, as on a garment.
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Pale (n.)
One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
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Pale (n.)
A cheese scoop.
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Pale (n.)
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
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Pale (v. t.)
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
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Pawl (n.)
A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.
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Pawl (v. t.)
To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.
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Peal (n.)
A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
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Peal (v. i.)
To appeal.
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Peal (n.)
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
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Peal (n.)
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
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Peal (v. i.)
To utter or give out loud sounds.
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Peal (v. i.)
To resound; to echo.
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Peal (v. t.)
To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
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Peal (v. t.)
To assail with noise or loud sounds.
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Peal (v. t.)
To pour out.
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Plea (n.)
That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.
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Plea (n.)
A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.
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Plea (n.)
That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology.
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Plea (n.)
An urgent prayer or entreaty.
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Wale (n.)
A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
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Wale (n.)
A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
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Wale (n.)
A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
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Wale (n.)
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
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Wale (n.)
A wale knot, or wall knot.
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Wale (v. t.)
To mark with wales, or stripes.
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Wale (v. t.)
To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
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Weal (n.)
The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
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Weal (v. t.)
To mark with stripes. See Wale.
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Weal (adv.)
A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
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Weal (adv.)
The body politic; the state; common wealth.
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Weal (v. t.)
To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.