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wheal (n.)
"mark made on the skin by a whip," 1808, perhaps an alteration of
wale
, possibly by confusion with
weal
"welt," and obsolete
wheal
"pimple, pustule" (mid-15c.), from Old English verb
hwelian
"to form pus, bring to a head."
