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What does the word hale mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To drag by force; haul; lug.

Part of speech: adjective

Of sound and vigorous health; robust.

Usage examples for hale

Bless my statue of Nathan Hale! – Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Victor Appleton
An ardent patriot, this John Hale, in 1676, gave about one- twelfth of his salary, some seventy pounds, for defense in King Philip's War. – Nathan Hale by Jean Christie Root