1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) U v a [It] is..good for the galling or chaffing of y^e fete.

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 55 Er winter preuenteth, while weather is good, for galling of pasture, get home with thy wood.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 96 Their vollie in their face..would bee no small galling vnto them.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 31 Vitex or Agnus Castus held only in the hand, preserveth the rider from galling . View more context for this quotation

1678 A. Marvell Def. John Howe in Wks. (1875) IV. 196 It is a certain remedy against all gauling, at least by this argumentation.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 633 Pieces of brass, with holes in them, put into wooden shivers, to keep them from splitting and galling by the pin of the block.

1799 H. T. Colebrooke Life (1873) 440 Four [elephants] were disabled, by the galling of their backs, from carrying their usual burdens.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 185/1 Gallynge, strumositas.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 410 Hony and Verdigrease boiled together..is a good ointment for all gallings on the withers.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Transplanting A good Piece of Rope tyed about the neck of the Trees upon a whisp of Straw, preserves them from gallings.

1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 146 A seat is..covered over with a cloth..lined at the bottom with strong leather, called a galling-leather.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 221 Galling Leather,..sewed under that part of the harness where there is a buckle to prevent it from galling the horse.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. v. 105 Silk acquires by galling a [permanent] weight.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 275 Galling consists in macerating any piece of stuff in a decoction of gall-nuts.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 543 After the galling, the silk is put into a solution of sulphate of iron.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. ii. xxxiii What tells the hand or head the toes great grief, When it alone is pinch'd with galling shooes?

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 57 What with gauling Darts and heavie strokes, the Britans who wore neither Helmet nor Cuirass to defend them, were at last overcome.

1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 16 As stubborn Steers..join'd reluctant to the galling Yoke.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 283 And looks with marvel on his galling chain.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xx. 89 They [the Ministry] were placed between two galling fires.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vi. 286 The occasions of anger in manie men are..nipping woordes, and gawling speeches.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xiii. 5) iv. 41 [Covetousnesse] is a gawling sinne. It works a continuall vexation.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 105 The anodyne draught of oblivion..is well calculated to preserve a galling wakefulness. View more context for this quotation

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 48 Ruin in fashionable life is accompanied by so many galling mortifications.

1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 221 The more galling and oppressive instances of serfdom seem to have slipped unconsciously away.

1802 J. Baillie Ethwald ii. iv. ii One who, new to greatness, Feels its unwieldy robe sit on his shoulders Constrain'd and gallingly.

1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xvii. 220 Law bears gallingly on those who want to break it.

1647 R. Boyle Let. in Wks. I. p. xxxix I never found that people discontented with their own church-government (the gallingness of whose yoke is the grand scare-crow that frights us here).