▪ I. rale, a.
(reɪl)
U.S. and dial. var. of real a.2
| 1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 60 Folks need not go out of Boston to find rale hospitality. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xvi. 108 A fellow that..makes verses—rale, superior, iligant articles. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxviii. 237 ‘Wot's she like?’ ‘Oh, a rale little bit of a thing.’ 1922 E. O'Neill in Hearst's Internat. Mar. 47/1 It was..aisy for a rale man with guts to him, the like of me. 1940 Amer. Speech XV. 46 Characteristic of those encountered in the Cumberlands and Ozarks are..rale, real. |
▪ II. rale
obs. f. rail.