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  • gallwood
    [cf. OED gall poison obs.→ 1450, and Scots gallwood wormwood CSD] n. a
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  • gallus, gallus tree
    [Gul. idem (Parsons 1923:38); cf. OED gallus gallows obs, → 1549, and Scots gallows-tree idem CSD] n. a gallows: 1918 Take me off
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  • gall somebody up
    v. phr. 1. [cf. OED gall to make sore by chafing, and gall poison obs.→1450] (of a plant) to cause an itch: Da's
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  • galloping vine
    [from its speed in spreading] n. a vine (sp?) resembling LOVE VINE which spreads over shrubs. (Andros, San Sal.)
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  • galley
    n. 1. [cf. OED, a ship's cooking range] a wooden box filled with sand on which a fire for cooking is
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  • gallery
    n. 1. [cf. GALLEY] a ship's kitchen or cooking place. (Black) 2.   [cf. Sra. gadri WST, Vir. gallery (Roy 1974), both 'porch'; cf. US dial.
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  • gale-of-wind bush
    [etym?] n. a plant, Phyllanthus niruri: 1920 (Britton 221). 1978 Gale-of-wind, Mimosa.. an insignificant weed used as a "tea" to reduce fever
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  • gale bird
    [probably from gale windstorm, but cf. OED gale (of a bird) to utter its peculiar note obs.→1520] n. 1. the barn swallow,
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  • gad daigs
    /gad deygz/ [cf. OED gad a minced pro­nunciation of God or W3 goldarn euphemism for god-damned] intj. an exclamation of surprise (youth slang):
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  • gable-end
    [cf. W Car. gíblin idem; cf. OED, gable obs.→1703, also Scots CSD] n. the end wall of a building, usually with a
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