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galley

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era. 2 (context British English) ...

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

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Galley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Garry Galley , former National Hockey League player Jim Galley (1944–2012), an English former cricketer and rugby union player Mel Galley (1948–2008), English guitarist Robert Galley (politician) ...

Usage examples of galley.

Our Sea, so he was going to take himself and his sixty galleys off to the Adriatic around Brundisium.

It was black and looked like a Quegan galley, with high fore- and aftercastles, large mainsails, and a hell of a lot of beam.

It was black and looked like a Quegan galley, with high fore and aftercastles, large mainsails, and a hell of a lot of beam.

Mr Blenkinsop, has just told me that tomorrow morning a delegation from the new Dey, Hassan, will arrive to congratulate His Majesty on the defeat of Bonaparte, to announce his own accession, and to settle a point at issue the Algerine galley and its alleged cargo.

Only the stuffed quail and artichokes and asparagus and the really excellent champagne in the first-class galley went some little way toward reconciling Audubon to being stuck on the steamship an extra day.

They had set off back to the Balearic Islands for another load, but the very first night they dropped the French land, the galley and her feeble crew had been snapped up by a pirate out of Algiers.

Henderson showed him the galley, a drab utilitarian place sporting little more than a mahogany bartree and standard-issue chairbeasts.

Behind Jesse, a rolled blanket on his shoulder, peering and peering in an effort to penetrate the darkness of the Cachot, was Tommy Bickford pink-checked, smiling, brown-eyed Tommy Bickford, whose father had taken my father on his shoulder when the Congress galley fought the whole British fleet at the Battle of Valcour Island and carried him wounded but safe to shore.

And so all commerce in fish and coal was suspended for an hour as the galley forced its way into Billingsgate Dock.

A Japanese pilot jumped after him and after numerous bows took formal charge of the galley.

Capsules B, C, and D, the lower spheres, were split into four decks apiece, with the two middle levels following a basic layout of cabins, a lounge, galley, and bathroom.

Gorn Frankin of Caroli seized his arm at the airlock and pulled him bodily down the dark corridor to the galley.

McGarvey stood in the forward galley, the telephone to his ear wondering what he was going to tell JoAnn Carrara when he faced her.

When, say, galley proofs were censored, the offending material was returned to the publisher with blue-penciled passages to be altered or deleted along with a standard form that simply indicated the paragraph or paragraphs of the ten-item Press Code that these impermissible passages violated.

Four of the Cydonia Base habitat was a wardroom which served jointly as the galley, dining area, conference room, and recreation area.