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GALLON

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 421 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GALLON , an
English
  measure of capacity, usually of liquids, but also used as a dry measure for corn. A gallon contains four quarts. The word was adapted from an O. Norm. Fr. galon, Central Fr. jalon, and was Latinized as gals, and "gallna. It appears to be connected with the
modern
 
French
  jale, a bowl, but the ultimate origin is unknown; it has been referred without much plausibility to Gr. yavXbs, a milk
pail
 . The British imperial gallon of four quarts contains 277.274 cub. in. The old
English
  wine gallon of 231 cub. in. capacity is the
standard
  gallon of the United States.


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