Gallineria. Span. A hen-coop; a place for keeping gallinas, or chickens.
Galoot (Galūth). Hebr. Bondage, captivity. “The galoot of sin.” In the slang of the United States the word means “a simpleton.”
Garbanzos. Span. Chick-pease (Cicer arietinum). The invariable vegetable in every olla and puchero.
Garlochin. Rom. Heart. See Carlo.
Garnata. Arab. Granada. See Melegrana.
Garrote. Span. and Port. The death penalty by strangulation, in which an iron collar fixed to a post is tightened by a screw and receives the neck of the culprit, which is broken by a sharp turn given by the executioner. Garrote also means a cudgel, or heavy walking-stick; and the tourniquet used by surgeons. It is a word of strange and uncertain etymology, and is said to be connected with Span. garra, a claw, Fr. jarret, a thigh, and other apparently incongruous words.
Gazpacho. A dish in the nature of a vegetable salad very popular in Spain, made of bread, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, garbanzos or chick-peas, with oil and seasoning of various kinds. The etymology is uncertain.
Gefatura. Span. Office of the following.
Gefe. Span. Chief. Gefe politico = corregidor, q.v.
Gelaba. Arab. A long cloak. Arab. jilbāb.