WATER GALL

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A cavity made in the earth by a torrent of water; a washout.

2.
n.

A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow. These water galls, in her dim element, Foretell new storms to those already spent. Shak. False good news are [is] always produced by true good, like the water gall by the rainbow. Walpole.


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