Middle English Dictionary Entry
gallen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | gallen v. |
| Etymology | From galle n.(2). Also cp. OF galer to scratch. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To give (a horse) saddle or harness galls, make (the back) sore; fig. of a person: to have sores.
Associated quotations
- ?c1335 Elde makiþ me (Hrl 913)p.171 : I poke, i pomple, i palle, i passe, As galliþ gome igeld.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.1344 : The hors..was blak, Al lene and galled on the back.
- ?a1400 Bozon (Hrl 1288)p.212 : Cum equus vel mulus fuerit redorsatus (anglice, gallyd).
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.6721 : A gallid hors..Who touchith hym, boweth his bak for dreede.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)185 : Gallyd: Strumosus. Gallyn, or make gallyd: Strumo.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Cock (Hrl 2255)158 : Whoo cast his iourne..With gallyd hakeneys.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Look TM (Hrl 2255)181 : A gallyd hors wyl wyncen in a stable, For noyse of sadlys.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)237/2 : Þis hors..was wayke & lene & had a sare gallid bakk.