wale vs gun rest

wale and gun rest both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wale	Yes	No	No	No
gun rest	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gun rest is a hyponym of wale; that is, gun rest is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wale:

wale: thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
gun rest: wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel

Other hyponyms of wale include garboard, garboard plank, garboard strake, gunnel, gunwale.

wale (noun)	gun rest (noun)
thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship	wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel
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