verb

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To bother or trouble.

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

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

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To exasperate.

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

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

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To scoff; to jeer.

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To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

Examples of galled in a Sentence

He strove to play the part of royal captive heroically, but the prison life galled him.

As king of Hungary he was, from first to last, the puppet of the Magyar oligarchs, who proceeded to abolish all the royal prerogatives and safeguards which had galled them under Matthias.

Johnson saw with more envy than became so great a man the villa, the plate, the china, the Brussels carpet, which the little mimic had got by repeating, with grimaces and gesticulations, what wiser men had written; and the exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled by the thought that, while all the rest of the world was applauding him, he could obtain from one morose cynic, whose opinion it was impossible to despise, scarcely any compliment not acidulated with scorn.

Up to this time Horne's fixed income consisted of those scanty emoluments attached to a position which galled him daily.

Tears, dejection and passionate expressions of a despair "wishing only for death," bore fitful and variable witness to her first sense of a heavier yoke than yet had galled her spirit and her pride.

The feeling that Austria could be compelled by imperial ordinance under paragraph 14 to acquiesce in whatever concessions the crown might make to Hungary galled Austrian public opinion and prepared it for coming changes.

In the general engagement, next day, the English cavalry could not break the " impenetrable wood " of the Scottish spearmen, who, however, were galled by the arrows of the English bowmen, which had broken their formation at Falkirk.

But the young duke, galled by Louis's overbearing arrogance, eventually asserted his independence and joined the league of Austria, Spain and Venice against him in r690.

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