hale

Meanings

1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

1. Health, welfare.

1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

1. A topographic surname from Old English.
2. A place name:
3. A number of places in England:
4. A village and civil parish in Halton borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4682).
5. A hamlet in Beetham parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5078).
6. A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ7786).
7. A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1818).
8. A hamlet south of Gillingham, Medway borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ7765).
9. A hamlet in Cucklington parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST7527).
10. A suburban village in the north of Farnham parish, Waverley district, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8448).
11. A number of places in the United States:
12. An unincorporated community in Yuma County, Colorado.

1. Acronym of high-altitude long-endurance

Etymology

From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”, whence whole), from Old English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.