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Definition of Gallons
1. gallon [n] - See also: gallon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallons
Literary usage of Gallons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"24 gallons. The double measure of 16 gallons is also used in the eastern parts,
... commonly 9j gallons, but varying from 9 and 9j to 10. (Heref. ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"Eight gallons of juice to one of syrup. EH Seward, McHenry County.—Eighteen
specimens of syrup ... Made 3000 gallons, at a cost of fifteen cents per gallon. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"Taking the whole area to be 1500000 acres, therefore, the gross total production
of such a season is C.30000000 gallons. From this must be deducted the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"That enlarges the lake to three and one-fourth miles in length and gives it a
capacity of eight and one-seventh billion gallons. The aqueduct leading to the ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"The consumption of domestic wines was 24,- 002439 gallons, ... gallons; of other
domestic spirits, ... gallons. The exportation of crude oil in 1902 was ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"The most scanty average production of spare hilly soil, where nearly the whole
of the fruit is allowed to wither, is about 104 gallons to the acre ..."