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Definition of Avale
1. v. t. & i. To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
Definition of Avale
1. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avale
1. to doff [v AVALED, AVALING, AVALES] - See also: doff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avale
Literary usage of Avale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"... and whose name has already occurred (see Vol. I. p. 46) as the antagonist of
Bonner. There were, however, two persons of the name of avale, ..."
2. The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland: Or, A Metrical Version of the History by Hector Boece, William Stewart (1858)
"... 34930 Than mak te ruiss as ^e think maist avale, For I will turne agane now
to my taill. ... avale ..."