Gaul

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A Celt of ancient Gaul.
2. n. A French person.
3. Formerly Gal·li·a (gălˈē-ä)Gaul 2 An ancient region of western Europe south and west of the Rhine River, west of the Alps, and north of the Pyrenees, corresponding roughly to modern-day France and Belgium. The Romans extended the designation to include northern Italy, particularly after Julius Caesar's conquest of the area in the Gallic Wars (58-51 B.C.).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An inhabitant of ancient Gaul, a country divided by the Alps into Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy) and Transalpine Gaul (modern France, with Belgium and parts of Germany, of Switzerland, and of the Netherlands); specifically, a member of the Gallic or Celtic race, in distinction from other races settled in the same regions.—2. In modern use, a Frenchman: as, the lively Gaul.
2. n. etc. An obsolete or occasional spelling of gall, gall, etc.
3. See gowl, yowl.
4. n. A wooden pole or bar used as a lever.

Wiktionary

1. n. A Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium
2. n. A person from Gaul.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
2. n. A native or inhabitant of Gaul.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a Celt of ancient Gaul
2. n. an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
3. n. a person of French descent