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Galiot
- - A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers. (b) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
Galium
- noun - annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
Galled
- verb - become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit"
- painful from having the skin abraded
Galley
- noun - (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars
- a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading
- the area for food preparation on a ship
- the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner
Gallia
- noun - a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores
- an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
Gallic
- adjective - of or pertaining to France or the people of France; "French cooking"; "a Gallic shrug"
- of or pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls; "Ancient Gallic dialects"; "Gallic migrations"; "the Gallic Wars"
Gallin
- - A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.
Gallon
- noun - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
- United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
Gallop
- noun - a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
- cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?"
- go at galloping speed; "The horse was galloping along"
- ride at a galloping pace; "He was galloping down the road"
Gallow
- - To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.