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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 421 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GALLON , an See also:

English measure of capacity, usually of liquids, but also used as a dry measure for See also:corn. A gallon contains four quarts. The word was adapted from an O. Norm. Fr. galon, Central Fr. jalon, and was Latinized as gals, and "gallna. It appears to be connected with the See also:modern See also:French jale, a bowl, but the ultimate origin is unknown; it has been referred without much plausibility to Gr. yavXbs, a See also:milk See also:pail. The See also:British imperial gallon of four quarts contains 277.274 cub. in. The old English See also:wine gallon of 231 cub. in. capacity is the See also:standard gallon of the See also:United States.

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