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Galley   /gˈæli/   Listen
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Galley  n.  (pl. galleys)  
1.
(Naut.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as:
(a)
A large vessel for war and national purposes; common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
(b)
A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
(c)
A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(d)
One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war. Note: The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. Galleons, galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications of this type.
2.
The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
3.
(Chem.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
4.
(Print.)
(a)
An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
(b)
A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave."
Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley.






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"Galley" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been very thoroughly gutted, even to the removal of many of her deck joists and 'tween-decks' stanchions. But in her galley, which, having remained closed, was in quite good order, we found the cooking range, though rusty, intact. It had been built into the deck-house, and, being partly of tiles, would hardly have lent itself to easy transport or use in another place. Ted had ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... sort of photophobia afflicted statesmen, who, allowing little for the good sense and spirit of Americans, or our geographical disconnection with France, were crazed with the fear that this Union might be, like Venice, made over to some European potentate, or chained in the same galley with Switzerland or Holland, to do the Directory's bidding. That, besides this unfounded fear, operated the desire of ultra-Federalists to take revenge upon those presses which had assailed the British treaty and other pet measures, and abused Federal leaders; and the determination ...
— History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... existed to accommodate ships coming up the Sea of Marmora. For the convenience of the imperial court, there was a small harbour in the bend of the shore to the east of Chatladi Kapu, known as the harbour of the Bucoleon. To the west of that gate, on the site of Kadriga Limani (the Port of the Galley), was the harbour of Julian, or, as it was named later, the harbour of Sophia (the empress of Justin II.). Traces of the harbour styled the Kontoscalion are found at Kum Kapu. To the east of Yeni Kapu stood the harbour of Kaisarius or the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 - "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" • Various

... I need the time for my study, so I will not play. Both my father and myself have labored and sacrificed to send me to college. The past five years, with one great ambition to go to college and learn, I have toiled like a galley-slave. ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... hang-dog visages—and so under the splenetic humor of some despotic sergeant serve your time of purgatory in advance? Would you like to run the gauntlet to the beat of the drum? or be doomed to drag after you, like a galley-slave, the whole iron store of Vulcan? Behold your choice. You have before you the complete catalogue of all that ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller


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