English Dictionary

gall

/ɡɔːl/

verb

(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.

Don't gall me with your constant complaints.

意味（1）

(transitive) To bother or trouble.

I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

意味（2）

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.

意味（3）

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

[…] he went awkwardly in these clothes at first: wearing the drawers was very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself to them, he took to them at length very well.

意味（4）

To exasperate.

Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.

意味（5）

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface.

意味（6）

To scoff; to jeer.

I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel