ˈsweet-gale
Also 7 -gaule.
[See sweet a. and gale n.1]
The bog myrtle, Myrica Gale.
| 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1451 Rhus sylvestris sive Myrtus Brabantica aut Anglica. Sweete Gaule. 1838 M. Howitt Birds & Fl., Pheasant iii, The spicy sweet-gale. 1845 Lindley Sch. Bot. (1862) 128 The Sweet Gale..has amentaceous achlamydeous flowers. 1851 Tennyson E. Morris 110, I..heard..The Sweet-Gale rustle round the shelving keel. |