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Gallon vs Gallow - What's the difference?

gallon | gallow |

As a noun gallon

is a unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints.

As a verb gallow is

(obsolete) to frighten.

gallon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
  • (British, Canadian) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
  • (US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon ")
  • (US) one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon ").
  • (in the plural, informal) A large quantity (of any liquid).
  • The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.

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    gallow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) to frighten
  • * 1605': The wrathful skies / '''Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear III.ii
  • See also

    * gallows