Wednesday’s Word

Word: Whale (V.)

Definition: to strike vigorously

Usage:

“How’d you run your fence so tight?”

“Well, I made me a new maul out of a piece of rock maple, got a box to stand on, then I whaled the bejeezus out of the posts. Man can’t run a good fence unless he’s drove those posts right down hahd.”

“Look awful pretty.”

“Nothing prettier than a tight fence.”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)