wheal

[ weel, hweel ]
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noun
  1. a small, burning or itching swelling on the skin, as from a mosquito bite or from hives.

  2. a wale or welt.

Origin of wheal

1
before 900; akin to whelk2 and to obsolete wheal (v.), Old English hwelian to suppurate, develop wheals

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British Dictionary definitions for wheal

wheal

/ (wiːl) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of weal 1

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