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ship's galley

n. the area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley, caboose, cookhouse]

Usage examples of "ship's galley".

When weather drove her from the foredeck, she went to the ship's galley, where she revealed a gift for turning hardtack into a sort of doughy pudding much favored by the crew.

They sat in a corner of the ship's galley, now jury-rigged to feed more people than captain's quarters could handle.

Only when he smelt the tantalizing odour of hot biscuit floating across the water from the ship's galley did his mood change, and he thrust his legs into his breeches and ran down the beach to scramble into the pinnace as it pulled away from the shore.

He seemed as composed and unaffected as if he stood in the ship's galley with a warm mug of kaffé.

It has beenquite some time since I have worked in a ship's galley.

It has been quite some time since I have worked in a ship's galley.

He dipped a pudgy finger into a welter of grimy objects in what apparently served as this ship's galley and extracted a moderately unsoiled cup.