avale

From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”).

avale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 8:

     And from their sweaty courses did avale.

• avalanche

• avale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

avale

1. allative singular of ava

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avale

1. inflection of avaler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

avale

1. Alternative form of avalen

avale

1. inflection of avalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative