hale

/heɪl/

Etymology

* As an English surname, Old English dative form of halh (“hollow, nook”). * Also as an English surname, from Old English hæle (“hero”). Compare Hain. * As an Irish surname, from mac céile; see McHale. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Halle.

hale means A topographic surname from Old English. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

name

A topographic surname from Old English.
A place name:; A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4682).
A place name:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Beetham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5078).
A place name:; A number of places in England:; A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ7786).
A place name:; A number of places in England:; A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1818).
A place name:; A number of places in England:; A hamlet south of Gillingham, Medway borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7765).

adj

Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.“His stomach too begins to fail: / Last year we thought him strong and hale; / But now he's quite another thing: / I wish he may hold out till spring!”

noun

Health, welfare.“Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle, / And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle.”

verb

To drag or pull, especially forcibly.“For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.”