avale
verbEtymology From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”).
1
Obsolete To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
2
Obsolete To bring low; to abase.
3
Obsolete To descend; to fall; to dismount.
- And from their sweaty courses did avale.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 8:
- Related terms
- avalanche