Galley
['gælɪ] or ['ɡæli]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cook-room (of a ship), caboose.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Having worked at Jarndyce and Jarndyce like a galley slave, I have slaked my thirst for the law and satisfied myself that I shouldn't like it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was a ghastly party--no one else but poor Neddy Silverton, who looks like a galley-slave (they used to talk of my making that poor boy unhappy! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What the devil do _you_ do in that galley there? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But some of the poorer free citizens followed mechanic arts, and, as we have already noted, would even pull an oar in a galley for pay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We remained at the public-house until the tide turned, and then Magwitch was carried down to the galley and put on board. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As, 'Mr Alley, Mr Balley, Mr Calley, Mr Dalley, Mr Falley, Mr Galley, Mr Halley, Mr Lalley, Mr Malley. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I felt as if her shadow were absolutely upon us, when the galley hailed us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her galley-fire smoking and flaring, looked like a comfortable home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The officer who steered the galley gave the same account of their going overboard. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- By George, you ought to have been in that galley, my girl! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Meantime the galley, which was very skilfully handled, had crossed us, let us come up with her, and fallen alongside. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He went off in a swift galley after her without informing his commanders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You forget that this is no galley of Ulysses, my friend. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The injury to his chest (which rendered his breathing extremely painful) he thought he had received against the side of the galley. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They came in long black galleys, making little use of sails. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Its galleys could have penetrated up the rivers to the heart of Russia and outflanked every barbarian advance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We know things about Major Loder (he is no more a Major than I am my Lord the Marquis) which would send him to the galleys or worse. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Mediterranean, as we have noted (chapter xvii) is a sea for galleys and coasting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They also loaded their galleys with soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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