Various units of capacity, some dry, some liquid, some both. From Old Northern French, possibly entering England with the Normans.
Because of the quantity of information, the various gallons are given their own pages:
imperial gallon (British Empire after 1826)
wine gallon (in Barbados and Gibraltar, after 1826)
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