Galley

['gælɪ] or ['ɡæli]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the area for food preparation on a ship.

(noun.) the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner.

(noun.) (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars.

(noun.) a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading.

阿伦編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not

(n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.

(n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.

(n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

(n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

(n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

(n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

(n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

(n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Cook-room (of a ship), caboose.

校對:威尔默

解釋/意思:

n. a long low-built ship with one deck propelled by oars: a state barge: the captain's boat on a war-ship: the place where the cooking is done on board ship: a kind of boat attached to a ship-of-war: (print.) a flat oblong tray in which the compositor places the type he has set up.—ns. Gall′ey-proof an impression taken from type on a galley; Gall′ey-slave one condemned for crime to work like a slave at the oar of a galley.

整理:康拉德