tale

IPA: tˈeɪɫ

A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
(obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
(obsolete) Speech; language.
(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
(law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
(rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
(rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
Alternative form of tael [Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.]

Examples of "tale" in Sentences

The title tale, "Harry and the Pirates," is a bit problematic.
Three of these ten solidly professional stories, including the title tale, are new, the rest from original anthologies.
The title tale communicates the disturbance caused by the reentrance of a former acquaintance into the life of a busy writer.
Smurfs has three shorter stories -- the title tale, "The Flying Smurf," and "The Smurf and His Neighbors" -- while Magic Flute is a full-length graphic novel.
And the last story, the title tale, features a knight of the realm, no less, who ends up being committed to Broadmoor Lunatic Asylum , as it was known in those days.
A form of creative reaction, which will be a part of the language return given by the first-grade child from the telling of the tale, will be his _reading of the tale_.
I wonder if you had considered that the "philosophical difference" between you & RTD that's at the core of your discontent with his tale is actually an inherent cultural difference?
I haven't got the vaguest idea why August Derleth made it the title tale of his first HPL compendium, and I've got only condescending, insulting ideas why it seems to take such central place in Lovecraft criticism since.
It seems curious that Canton should make a second mistake and refuse it again, but publishers were wary in those days, and even the newspaper success of the Frog story did not tempt him to venture it as the title tale of a book.