"wale on" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990 August 19, Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted - and Guilty?”, in The New York Times Magazine",
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          "ref": "1997, Gary Soto, Buried Onions, page 43",
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          "ref": "1999, Linda M. Bullard, Shades of Justice, page 131",
          "text": "She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels.",
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