† galdv.
Obsolete.
= gall v.1
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > chafe or excoriate
flayc1250
to-shell1377
gallc1440
excoriate1497
chafe1526
to pare to (also beyond, etc.) the quick1538
spur-galla1555
gald1555
raw1593
begall1597
rub1618
rind1893
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 358 Sum of theym are so galded that..they are..made lame.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xiii. 31 The keepers of Houndes hauing a heauy hande in rubbing and trimming them, might galde of the skinne.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1587) 83 As I gaze thus galded all with griefe.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. viii. 165 The one galding them with darts and Iauelins; and the others marching thicke and close togither.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 23 Our Cable galded off..we lost our Anker.
Derivatives
gald n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > sore > gall or chafe
gallc1440
gallingc1440
excoriation?a1547
galledness1569
merry-gall1575
gald1611
galding1684
1611 J. Boys Wks. (1629) 512 They like busie flies are buzzing alwayes on the sores and gaulds of the church.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > sore > gall or chafe
gallc1440
gallingc1440
excoriation?a1547
galledness1569
merry-gall1575
gald1611
galding1684
1684 London Gaz. No. 1950/4 A bay Gelding thick grown, without any White except Galdings.
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