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Gal

noun

United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters. Synonym: gallon.

A unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo).

Alliterative term for girl (or woman).

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"Gal" Quotes from Famous Books

... got to break dat gal's head some day. Yessuh; she knows whut my cross is," and then he started slowly after her, shaking his head and, as his wont was, ...

— Crittenden - A Kentucky Story of Love and War • John Fox, Jr.

... was most anxious to do so, the accounts of earlier travellers and the maps hitherto laid down varying from 23 degrees 6 minutes to 22 degrees 34 minutes. A reconnaissance of the coast of Brazil was succeeded by a sail through the passage between the islands of Gal and Alvaredo, unjustly characterized as dangerous by La Perouse, and on the 21st December, 1803, ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... size of that gal?" A short laugh issued from the driver. "She'd clean up in vaudeville, wouldn't she? Why, she could lift a ton, in harness. And hoein' the garden, with their coin! It's like a woman I heard of: they got a big well on their farm and she came to town to do some shoppin'; somebody ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... Inquisitive! Law sakes, do hear the child talk! Neow, what harm kin there be in tryin' to find eout what your neighbors have got for dinner? I mean to put on my bunnet and run acrost and see. I know they've got apple dumplin's, for I see the hired gal throw the parin's ...

— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various

... fortin? You're a goose, boy! Stick to yer work here,—fishin' summers an' shoemakin' winters. Why, there isn't a young feller on the hull Cape makes as much as you. What's up? Gal gin ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

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