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GALE
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Arthurian
, a knight who beheaded Gawain's horse.
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English
 English name derived from Roman Galenus, GALEN means "calm, seas." Compare with another form of Galen.
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Arthurian
, king & knight; son of Arthur.
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Greek
 Masculine form of Greek Galênê, GALEN means "calm seas." Compare with another form of Galen.
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English
English : variant spelling of Gales.
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English
English : variant spelling of Galley.Ukrainian : nickname meaning ‘hasten’, ‘hurry’, from Proto-Slavic galiti ‘to shout’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone living near a wall (in particular, the wall of a city), or an occupational name for a mason who built walls (see Wall).English : topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall, for example a Roman wall or the wall of a walled city (see Wall 2).English : occupational name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to boil’.English : nickname for a good-humored person, Anglo-Norman French wall(i)er (an agent derivative of Old French galer ‘to make merry’, of Germanic origin).South German : nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘pilgrim’.Col. John Waller came from England to VA in about 1635. The name was brought to North America by several other bearers independently.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the vocabulary word gale, GALE means "sea storm."Â Compare with strictly feminine Gale.
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English (northeast)
English (northeast) : probably a variant of Gale.Possibly also an Americanized spelling of German Gölz (see Goelz).
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English
English : from Middle English Gallis, variant of Wallis.Possibly an Americanized form of German Gölz (see Goelz).
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English : variant spelling of Gale.French : nickname from Old French gail ‘cheerful’, ‘jolly’.German : variant of Geil.
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English (of Norman origin) and French
English (of Norman origin) and French : nickname from French
gaillard ‘strong’, ‘robust’, possibly from Gaulish galia
‘strength’ + the suffix -ard.English (of Norman origin) and French : from Old French
gaile ‘cheerful’ (of Germanic origin; compare Gale 1) +
the pejorative suffix -ard.English (of Norman origin) and French : Gaillard was brought to America by the Huguenots, and is sometimes
Americanized as
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English
English : nickname for someone with a good voice, from Middle English nighti(n)gale (Old English nihtegal, from niht ‘night’ + galan ‘sing’).Probably a translation of German and Jewish Nachtigall, or cognates in other languages.
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English
English : variant spelling of Galsworthy, a habitational name from a place in Devon named Galsworthy, possibly from Old English gagel ‘gale’, ‘bog myrtle’ + ora ‘hill slope’.
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French
Perhaps the French equivalent of English Galahad, a form of Hebrew Gilad, GALEHOT means "hard, stony region." In Arthurian legend, this is the name of a Knight of the Round Table who was called "Lord of the Remote Islands."
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English (chiefly Northumberland) and French
English (chiefly Northumberland) and French : perhaps a variant of Gale 2.
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English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
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English
English : variant spelling of Gale.
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English
English : variant of Gale 3.Possibly a respelling of German Gähler, a variant of Gehler.
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Reduced form of the Dutch surname van Galen, a habitational name, probably from Gaal in the province of North Brabant, or perhaps from the German town of Gahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia.English
Reduced form of the Dutch surname van Galen, a habitational name, probably from Gaal in the province of North Brabant, or perhaps from the German town of Gahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia.English : variant of Galyon.
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a.
Alt. of Galenical
v. i.
To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
n.
False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).
n.
A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
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Galena; lead ore.
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A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet.
an.
Relating to Galen or to his principles and method of treating diseases.
n.
A follower of Galen.
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A gentle gale of wind.
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The doctrines of Galen.
a.
Pertaining to, or containing, galena.
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A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
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Alt. of Galeated
n.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
v. t.
To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
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Alt. of Galenical
n.
A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
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An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. Called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.
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A cretaceous fossil sea urchin of the genus Galerites.