ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b.] Not pinched or galled.
1604. Shaks., Ham., III. ii. 253 (Q. 2). Your Maiestie, and wee that haue free soules, it touches vs not, let the gauled Iade winch, our withers are unwrong. [Hence freq. in later echoes of the phrase, or occas. (in recent use) of the word.]
