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gal

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1795, OED Evaluation: colloq. and regional (now chiefly N. Amer. and Caribbean).

Girl (in various senses)

ExampleMeaning
But anyways I- I just getting off the elevator at the nursing home one day and this gal that I'd known, Tessie, and she had her friend with her.
Girl, young lady.
Speaker: Oh yeah well Kaitlin would know her. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Yeah yeah yeah. Kaitlin- Interviewer: She told me all kinds of things. Speaker: Great gal, yeah. Well but ah-
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: He always makes me cry every time he sings at something special. I- I'd love to have Don up here singing that afternoon. Interviewer: Oh yes (inc). Speaker: (Laughs) That would've been the icing on the cake, eh? Interviewer: He just become a grandfather once again so- Speaker: Oh gal. Oh yes, oh my goodness yes (laughs).
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I think I'm a nervous, anxious person to begin with. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Which ah- yeah, I'm not like a go-with-the-flow kind-of gal. Um, of-course you like think about all- like those first three months, you don't know what's going on. You like- you can't see anything. Um, so the unknown and you hear about all these crazy statistic about how like everybody has like miscarriages and-stuff-like-that.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
And ah- and ah but ah- before the dinner happened um- I um- this gal, her name is ah Nancy-Pietrus. She lives in- in um Kitchener right now. They moved down there.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
And the next year, I w-- had a sweetheart of a teacher, Miss-Sommer, and the next year, I had a little, short, very sharp little gal by the name of Miss-Frances, but she- I liked her, and then I had Miss-Sommer again, that was a break, that was a lucky break. And then in grade ah- in your third- whatever you would called senior third, it was Miss-Peters from Englehart.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: So to be able to take the treatment here is- is a wonderful thing. Interviewer: So true. Speaker: Mm-hm. And the gal who does it is- is a just a- who runs the- the unit basically is just a gem. Interviewer: Ah. What's her name? Speaker: Her name is Liane. Yeah, Liane-Boderan.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Actually I did meet one but she wasn't really a biker. She was on the back of a bike. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: She was a German gal and ah she's working at the Green (inc) and she was riding on the back of Laura-Leveille's bike.
Girl, young lady.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: My other daughter is living in, um, Round-Lake. And she has a son and is expecting a second child. Interviewer: Oh, yeah, you were saying. Speaker: Yeah, so, um- and she is the gal, Jill, who wants to come by and take a photograph of the apple-trees with herself when she's eight-months pregnant.
Girl, young lady.
So it's rubies and diamonds, which I'm so happy to have, but- and I'm so proud to wear it because I can just imagine some other gal would have worn it, years ago, right? And I- so I don't know anything about it, but I'm now the proud owner, and one my daughters will have it eventually.
Girl, young lady.

Gangway

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1702, OED Evaluation: NA

A passage in a building or (later also) a passenger vehicle; spec. an aisle between rows of seats in a theatre, train, aircraft, etc.

ExampleMeaning
I think it was probably the- the horses would ah take it to the- to the barn, up the gangway and into the barn.
A pathway or ramp.
ExampleMeaning
It sat in the tractor house on the edge of the gangway. You build an extra gangway and you run the belt in through into the grinder.
A pathway or ramp.
Yeah. That was the tin tractor house I moved- I moved it over there. It used to sit in the gangway.
A pathway or ramp.

Garb

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1622, OED Evaluation: N/A

Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume.

ExampleMeaning
The traditional garb for choirs and the Anglican-church are black cassocks and white surplices, with mortar boards for the ladies.
Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume.
ExampleMeaning
nd um, they do the- the folk art and they have the traditional garb and all the dances and then right across is the traditional um-
Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume.
ExampleMeaning
"Well, we'll try to dress them- the kids- children, ah- in- in the Indian costume," you-know, in their Indian garb, eh?
Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume.
I don't know whether they have the kids coming up with the garb, but they still have that same infant there yet.
Fashion of dress, esp. official or other distinctive dress; hence concr. dress, costume.

Garret

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1483, OED Evaluation: N/A

A room on the uppermost floor of a house; an apartment formed either partially or wholly within the roof, an attic.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Now in the house where you lived, what did you call a space just under the roof? Speaker: Ah we- just a crawlspace in the house I was bo-- I was born in. Interviewer: Mm-hm. If it was the type where you stored things in, what would you ca-- Speaker: Well you have attic or garret.
Attic

Gas-bar

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1970, OED Evaluation: North Canadian

a petrol station, esp. one without a garage for service or repairs, and having only basic facilities, as pumps and a kiosk.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah that used to be the bowling alley and the gas bar, and we had part of that, and then we moved from that over to the barn by the feed-mill.
Gas station
Yeah right from M-and-M down there was three- three houses there and then there was a bowling alley on the corner. And the little gas bar there. Super-Gas. And um and then across from there where Dixie-Lee is and that whole lot where the bowling alley is used to be the boat works.
Gas station