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Encyclopedia Britannica



GALE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 398 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GALE . 1. (A word of obscure origin; possibly derived from Dan. gal, mad or furious, sometimes applied to wind, in the sense of boisterous) a wind of considerable power, considerably stronger than a breeze, but not severe enough to be called a
storm
 . In nautical language it is usually combined with some qualifying word, as " half a gale," a " stiff gale." In poetical and figurative language " gale " is often used in a pleasant sense, as in " favouring gale"; in America, it is used in a
slang
  sense for boisterous or excited behaviour.
2. The payment of rent, customs or duty at
regular
  intervals; a "
hanging
  gale " is an arrear of rent left over after each successive " gale " or rent day. The
term
  survives in the Forest of Dean, for leases granted to the " free miners " of the forest, granted by the " gaveller " or agent of the crown, and the
term
  is also applied to the royalty paid to the crown, and to the area
mined
 . The word is a contracted form of the O. Eng. gafol, which survives in " gavel," in
gavelkind
  (q.v.), and in the name of the office mentioned above. The root from which these words derive is that of " give." Through Latinized forms it appears in gabeile (q.v.).
3. The popular name of a plant, also known as the sweet gale or gaul, sweet willow, bog or Dutch myrtle. The Old
English
  form of the word is gagel. It is a small, twiggy, resinous fragrant shrub found on bogs and moors in the British Islands, and widely distributed in the north temperate zone. It has narrow, short-stalked leaves and inconspicuous, apetalous, unisexual
flowers
  borne in short spikes. The small drupe-like fruit is attached to the persistent bracts. The leaves are used as tea and as a country
medicine
 . John Gerard (Herball, p. 1228) describes it as sweet willow or gaule, and refers to its use in beer or ale. The genus Myrica is the type of a small, but widely distributed order, Myricaceae, which is placed among the apetalous families of Dicotyledons, and is perhaps most nearly allied to the willow family. Myrica cerifera is the candleberry, wax-myrtle or wax-tree (q.v.).


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