Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of southwest Scotland. The Mull of Galloway, a promontory on a peninsula on its southwest coast, is the southernmost point in Scotland.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a breed of horses of small size (under fifteen hands high), first raised in Galloway in Scotland, characterized by great spirit and endurance.
- noun A breed of hornless cattle, of great antiquity, developed in the highlands of southwestern Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small horse of a breed raised at
Galloway , Scotland; -- called alsogarran , andgarron .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A formerly
Gaelic -speaking region in the southwestern-most corner ofScotland as part ofDumfries and Galloway council area. Its capital is Kirkcudbright.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a district in southwestern Scotland
- noun breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland
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And Galloway is eighth in that same group with 689 catches and 10,777 yards.
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Ruth Galloway is a delightful, human, and quirky character.
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Terry Galloway is a deaf, queer writer and performer, who tours her one-woman shows as a cheap way of seeing the world.
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The Bugz 2 to Bonz guy is Shawn Moore, he is local to Columbus in Galloway, Ohio.
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Terry L. Galloway is a deaf writer (poetry, essays, memoir, and plays), director, dramaturg, and performance artist who has an international reputation for scandalous humor combined with incisive insight.
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