Definitions for galls

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galls gall

Spelling: [gawl]

IPA: /gɔl/

Galls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in galls (aglls).

Definitions for galls

noun

1. impudence; effrontery.
2. bile, especially that of an animal.
3. something bitter or severe.
4. bitterness of spirit; rancor.
5. a sore on the skin, especially of a horse, due to rubbing; excoriation.
6. something very vexing or irritating.
7. a state of vexation or irritation.
8. any abnormal vegetable growth or excrescence on plants, caused by various agents, as insects, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, chemicals, and mechanical injuries.
9. (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.

Idioms

1. gall and wormwood, bitterness of spirit; deep resentment.

verb (used with object)

1. to make sore by rubbing; chafe severely:
2. to vex or irritate greatly:

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become chafed.
2. Machinery. (of either of two engaging metal parts) to lose metal to the other because of heat or molecular attraction resulting from friction.
3. Metallurgy. (of a die or compact in powder metallurgy) to lose surface material through adhesion to the die.

Origin of galls

before 900; Middle English; Old English galla, gealla; cognate with German Galle; akin to Latin fel, Greek cholḗ gall, bile

Examples for galls

Under a specious, smiling countenance you all conceal a heart of gall.

In drawing poultry, care must be taken not to break the gall bag, for no washing will take off the bitter where it has touched.

The drainage tube to the bilary duct, which connected the intestines to the gall bladder, also failed.

As far as I know, however, only gall managed to find a source to verify this.

The head should be twisted under the wing; and in drawing it, take care not to tear the liver, nor let the gall touch it.

But it is time to lay down my pen, since my ink runs nothing but gall.

But he lived on, embittered, vengeful, with gall in his veins instead of blood.

I have summoned you here to witness it, because I know it will be gall and wormwood to you!

And you even had the gall to claim to have turned a new leaf in the pinstripes.

Their poverty was sweet, but there was gall in it, nevertheless.