Crossword clues for galleys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galley \Gal"ley\, n.; pl. Galleys. [OE. gale, galeie (cf. OF. galie, gal['e]e, LL. galea, LGr. ?; of unknown origin.]
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(Naut.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as:
A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
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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.
The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
(Chem.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
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[F. gal['e]e; the same word as E. galley a vessel.] (Print.)
An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
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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.''
--Macaulay.Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley.
--Knight.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of galley English)
Usage examples of "galleys".
The men, the horses, the arms, the engines, the wooden towers, covered with raw hides, were embarked on board one hundred and fifty vessels: the transports had been built in the ports of Italy, and the galleys were supplied by the alliance of the republic of Ragusa.
Whilst they labored to extricate themselves from the fire-ships, and to save at least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valor.
But the emperor, alarmed by the distress and danger of his Italian conquests, despatched to the relief of Naples a fleet of galleys and a body of Thracian and Armenian soldiers.
Fifteen broken and decayed galleys were boldly launched against the enemy.
This violation of the public faith exasperated a free and commercial people: one hundred galleys were launched and armed in as many days.
A double line, three bow-shots in front, was formed by the galleys and ships.
At the same moment, the Catalan admiral, the famous Roger de Loria, swept the channel with an invincible squadron: the French fleet, more numerous in transports than in galleys, was either burnt or destroyed.
Their triumphant vessels, crowned with flowers, and dragging after them the captive galleys, repeatedly passed and repassed before the palace: the only virtue of the emperor was patience.
For these condescensions he requires a prompt succor of fifteen galleys, with five hundred men at arms, and a thousand archers, to serve against his Christian and Mussulman enemies.
Nine galleys were equipped for the service at Venice, and in the Isle of Candia.
Except eighteen galleys of some force, the rest of their fleet consisted of open boats, rudely constructed and awkwardly managed, crowded with troops, and destitute of cannon.
They even raid places on the mainland of Italy, looting, kidnapping men for their galleys and women for the brothels.
They've suddenly started swarming over the ports along the coast of southern Sicily - kidnapping for their galleys and looting and raping.
First, it seemed tragic that people with so little to lose should be raided by the Saracens and second that the only other thing they had to lose, their very lives, should have been taken to be worn out in the galleys and brothels.
It'll be like trying to snatch sprats out of a barrel: those tartanes and galleys will be just as slippery.