noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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UK:/ˈweɪlə/
rhymes with -eɪlə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 1
A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, India
Examples
2007, "Waler", entry in Bonnie L. Hendricks, International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds, page 434, Some maintain that the Waler is extinct, its blood living on only in the modern Australian Stock Horse and some of the feral brumbies that roam the outback.
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Meaning 2
A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: structural engineering
Examples
1998, Richard Lampo, Thomas Nosker, Doug Barno, John Busel, Ali Maher, Piyush Dutta, Robert Odello, Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program: Development and Demonstration of Composite FRP Fender, Loadbearing, and Sheet Piling Systems, US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, USACERL Technical Report 98/123, page 65, Another consideration is when walers are placed between the piles (Figure 27) and to what extent the pile could deform before the load of the berthing vessel would be shared by the adjacent walers.
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Meaning 3
Alternative form of waler (“breed of horse”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
Etymology
From (New South) Wale(s) + -er, the horse having been bred in the then colony of New South Wales in the 19th century.
