Abigail vs Gale - What's the difference?
abigail | gale |
(obsolete) A lady’s waiting maid.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 415:
* 1847 , Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre :
To sing; charm; enchant.
* Court of Love
To cry; groan; croak.
To talk.
(intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
An outburst, especially of laughter.
(archaic) A light breeze.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) A song or story.
(nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
A shrub, also sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale ) growing on moors and fens.
(archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
As a proper noun abigail
is the wife of nabal and later of david.As a noun gale is
(label) (ship propelled primarily by oars).abigail
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.
- In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails , I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.
References
gale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) galen, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
- Can he cry and gale .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a gale of laughter
- A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.
- And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odours fanned / From their soft wings.
- (Toone)
Coordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, hurricane, stormSee also
* Beaufort scaleVerb
(gal)Etymology 3
(etyl) (en)Noun
(Myrica gale) (Webster 1913)Etymology 4
(etyl)Noun
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.