Material transfer caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces, potentially resulting in wear or binding.

present participle of gall

Vexing, humiliating; eliciting indignation or bitterness.

(transitive) To bother or trouble. / To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. / To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. / To exasperate.

(anatomy) The gall bladder. / (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation. / (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

(countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

A city in Sri Lanka.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gall

plural of gall