Dictionary Entry
A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “gal”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →“ You min’ me, Sistah Hannah, dere’s sump’n’
on dat gal’s min’.’” And Aunt Hannah an-
swered: ‘I believe you.”
Read full poem →I had my last an' only fight
About a gal one summer night.
'T was me an' Zekel Johnson; Zeke
Read full poem →‘ By thy long grey beardand glittering eye, three Gal-
Read full poem →breste to bere the great myghte of the bowe. The shafte
must be made rounde nothynge flat wyth out gal or wemme,
for thys purpose. For bycause roundnesse (whether you
Read full poem →pops. Number Ten in the wagon train this week is none other than
that little yaller-haired gal you been hearin’ so much about lately ...
the one an’ only Sunflower!”
Read full poem →town do agree to accept of said third hundred for satis-
faction for said grant, and also we, the said John Gal-
lup of Stonington and Benadam Gallup of Groton, and