Definitions For Gallize

Verb

galliz , es {{term-label , en , american spelling , oxford british spelling}} (transitive, winemaking) To add sugar#noun, sugar and water#noun, water to (unfermented grape juice#noun, juice) so as to increase#verb, increase the quantity of wine produce#verb, produced.

Alternative forms

gallise {{qualifier, British spelling}}

Derived terms

gallization

Translations

German: gallisiren Italian: adulterare

Etymology

, the German inventor who developed the gallization process.{{refn, group=n, name=n1, From {{cite-journal, journal=Illustrirter Kalender für 1860: Jahrbuch der Ereignisse Bestrebungen und Fortschritte im Völkerleben und im Gebiete der Wissenschaften Künste und Gewerbe, trans-work=Illustrated Calendar for 1860: Yearbook of Events, Efforts and Advances in People’s Lives and in the Fields of Science, Arts and Commerce, location=Leipzig, publisher=J. J. Weber, year=1860, volume=XV, page=68, oclc=803100897}}.}}]] From {{der, en, de, Gall}} + w:english language, english -ize, pos=suffix forming {{glossary, verbs from {{glossary, adjective}}s or {{glossary, noun}}s with the sense of doing what the adjective or noun denotes}}, from the surname of Dr. w:de:ludwig gall, ludwig gall (1791–1863), the German inventor who developed the process.Compare {{R:OED Online, pos=v, id=76332, date=1898}}{{cite-book, author=Karl Storchmann, chapter=Germany, Austria and Switzerland, editors={{w, Kym Anderson}} and Vincente Pinilla, title=Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History, location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, publisher={{w, Cambridge University Press}}, year=2018, section=part II (Traditional Markets), page=98, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DhFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA98, isbn=978-1-107-19292-8, passage=[T]he wine industry also benefitted from a new technology, so-called gallization. [...] It is named after the originator of the practice, Ludwig Gall, whose method was explicitly aimed at enabling vintners to make wine from unripe grapes [...].}}

Notes

Is Gallize a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

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17
Words with Friends
20

The word Gallize is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

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