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A district in southwestern Scotland
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galloway
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galloway \Gal"lo*way\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran , and garron .
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Galloway is a region of Scotland. Galloway may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
district in southwestern Scotland (Medieval Latin Gallovidia ), equivalent to Welsh Gallwyddel , Irish Gallgaidhil , literally "foreign Gaels," containing the Gal- element also common in Irish place-names (Irish Gaelic gall ) and meaning there "a stranger, ...
Usage examples of galloway.
Galloway, in his defence of craniotomy, to which I referred in a former lecture.
Picts of Galloway were predominantly Celtic--a mixture of Gaelic, Cymric, aboriginal and possibly Teutonic elements.
Meanwhile the Galloways will reign, and will assure us that they won their success by the Decalogue and the Golden Rule-- and will be believed by all who seek to assure for themselves in advance almost certain failure at material success in the arena of action.
Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father, who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway, to look for other employment.
The fellow who had been addressed by his companion as Joey, at the time they encountered Mortlake and Harding on the road to the Galloway farm, nodded.
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Galloway, Noble Sissle, Fletcher Henderson.
He had crossed those fords a year before on the day that Washington Faulconer had tried to eject him from the Legion, and if that far gleam was indeed the run and the road really was the highway leading from Manassas to Sudley, then it meant that the Legion was close, tantalizingly close, to the Galloway farm.
It was a broad chaise, drawn by two stout galloways, with a dicky behind in which a servant sat with folded arms.
When he emerged on the moor he was met by such a blast of wind and water that he could scarcely see the track, and his galloways stumbled among ruts and pot-holes.
No need to change horses, for the galloways would carry them next day to Catterick Bridge.
It proved to be empty of guests, the landlord was friendly, they were shown clean bedrooms, and, when Jock had seen the galloways stabled and fed, they sat down to a comfortable supper.
Nanty emerged from the inn he found the galloways being put to the chaise by an obedient ostler.
Andrews, Argyll, Huntly, Arbroath, Galloway, Ross, Fleming, Herries, Stirling, Kilwinning, Hamilton, and Saint-Clair, Knight.
Joseph Galloway owned property just outside Manassas itself, and that farm was now the depot for a regiment of Northern cavalry exclusively recruited from Southerners loyal to the government in Washington.
There were the two captains, Birthmark Sweetlocks, Ned Galloway, and Israel Martin, the old buccaneers-man.