What is "weals"

Usage examples of "weals".

Lieutenant Wohl said to Graham, stretching a thin cord from the center of the weals to a point four or five feet above the body.

When it was done, he slumped over me a moment, laying his face against my back, my fair skin adorned with the work of a master marquist, striped by the weals of a crop.

I knelt without moving as she smeared a pungent salve on various weals and cuts.

At their next blows, the first weals marked Dasumia, and she groaned at them to strike harder still.

Her blouse was torn in shreds, disclosing the weals on her breast and shoulders.