gallet

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Originally Posted by gallet

View all »
Definitions (2)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

  1. A fragment of stone broken off by a mason's chisel; a spall.
  2. To insert small pieces of stone into the joints of, as coarse masonry: as, to gallet a wall. Parker. Also garret.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

Examples (1)

 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 12 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. Also written galet; from French galet, a pebble, collectively shingle, diminutive of Old French gal, a stone. Cf. French caillou, a flinty pebble, and see calliard.
  2. More commonly in the corrupted form garret; from gallet, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

cock-pit · Beefy · spaded · jailed · exhaustive

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

settii · aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile · an sionnach i gcraiceann na caorach · lavar puercos con jabón es perder tiempo y jabón · procrastinate