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gallizing

gallizing is the present participle and gerund of gallize.

Meaning of gallize

Verb

gallize (third-person singular simple present gallizes, present participle gallizing, simple past and past participle gallized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, dated, transitive) To add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.
    • [page 163] Therefore it is, that to us the knowledge of how to properly gallize our wines is still more important than to the European vintner, and the results which we can realize are yet more important. [...] [page 172] Truth and justice need never fear the light—they can only gain additional...1866, George Husmann, “Wine-making”, in The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] E. Woodward, […], →OCLC, pages 163 and 172

Questions about gallizing

What is gallizing the present participle and gerund of?
Gallizing is the present participle and gerund of gallize.

Words near gallizing in the dictionary

  1. galliwasps
  2. gallization
  3. gallize
  4. gallized
  5. gallizes
  6. gallizing
  7. gallless
  8. Gallman
  9. Gallmans
  10. Gallmeister
  11. gallnut

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