The difference between Gall and Nutgall

Gall as a noun (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable):

Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

Gall as a noun (anatomy):

The gall bladder.

Gall as a noun (uncountable, obsolete):

Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

Gall as a noun (countable):

A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

Gall as a noun (uncountable):

A feeling of exasperation.

Gall as a noun (uncountable):

Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

Gall as a noun (medicine, obsolete, countable):

A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

Gall as a noun (countable):

A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

Gall as a noun (countable):

A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Gall as a verb (transitive):

To trouble or bother.

Gall as a verb:

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

Gall as a verb:

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

Gall as a verb:

To exasperate.

Gall as a verb:

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Gall as a verb:

To scoff; to jeer.

Gall as a noun (countable, plant disease):

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp .

Gall as a verb:

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

Nutgall as a noun:

A kind of gall on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite, with a nut-like shape.