Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Avale

Avale ({not transcribed}) , verb, transitive and intransitive

[French avaler to descend, to let down. See Avalanche.]

1.
To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
2.
To bring low; to abase. [Obsolete] — Sir H. Wotton
3.
(v. i.) To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obsolete]
And from their sweaty courses did avale. — Spenser