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# hale

adjective (hale, haler, halest); verb (hale, hales, haled, haling — old)

«hale» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Hale means strong and healthy, usually said about an older person. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#m1)
2. (old) To hale someone means to pull or drag them, especially to court. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life the phrase «hale and hearty» means fit and well, often about grandparents. The verb is old-fashioned and appears in old books or the Bible: «haled into court». It tells the reader a person is in good health despite age.

### Examples

- Grandpa is still hale and hearty at ninety. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#x1)
- The old farmer looked hale and strong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#x2)
- After the holiday, everyone came back hale and well. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#x3)
- (old) The thief was haled before the judge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#x4)
- My nan is hale enough to walk five miles a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#x5)
- Looking out, she saw the lad hale and hearty standing before her, and grew whiter than ever with rage and spite. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/#x6)

### Note

Mostly used in «hale and hearty». It sounds the same as «hail» (ice from the sky, or to call out to), but they are different words: homophones.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hale» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hale/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hale» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hale.html) on Mova free.