"wale on" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See wale (“mark with welts”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wales on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waling on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waled on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waled on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "wale on (third-person singular simple present wales on, present participle waling on, simple past and past participle waled on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "whale on"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 August 19, Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted - and Guilty?”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "\"One of my coke babies had retinal damage and seizures and to me that is just as severe as somebody waling on a kid,\" she says.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Gary Soto, Buried Onions, page 43:",
          "text": "I figured that if he was there, I would let him wale on me as a sort of punishment, wale on me just for a few seconds before I started my action and hit back.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Linda M. Bullard, Shades of Justice, page 131:",
          "text": "She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of whale on"
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "whale on#English"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Alternative form of whale on"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wale on"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "See wale (“mark with welts”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wales on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waling on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waled on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waled on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wale on (third-person singular simple present wales on, present participle waling on, simple past and past participle waled on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "whale on"
        }
      ],
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        "English phrasal verbs",
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 August 19, Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted - and Guilty?”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "\"One of my coke babies had retinal damage and seizures and to me that is just as severe as somebody waling on a kid,\" she says.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Gary Soto, Buried Onions, page 43:",
          "text": "I figured that if he was there, I would let him wale on me as a sort of punishment, wale on me just for a few seconds before I started my action and hit back.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Linda M. Bullard, Shades of Justice, page 131:",
          "text": "She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of whale on"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whale on",
          "whale on#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Alternative form of whale on"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "wale on"
}