Hypertext Webster Gateway: "galled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gall \Gall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Galled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Galling}.] [OE. gallen; cf. F. galer to scratch, rub, gale
scurf, scab, G. galle a disease in horses' feet, an
excrescence under the tongue of horses; of uncertain origin.
Cf. {Gall} gallnut.]
1. To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the
skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by
attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall
a mast or a cable.
I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. --Shak.
2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
They that are most galled with my folly, They most
must laugh. --Shak.
3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled
by the shot of the enemy.
In our wars against the French of old, we used to
gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance
than they could shoot their arrows. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
galled
adj : painful from having the skin abraded [syn: {chafed}]
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