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Galley   /gˈæli/   Listen
Galley

noun
(pl. galleys)
1.
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.
2.
(classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars.
3.
The kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner.
4.
The area for food preparation on a ship.  Synonyms: caboose, cookhouse, ship's galley.



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"Galley" Quotes from Famous Books



... husband and her children, Flora exacted service that would have chafed a galley slave into rebellion. She loved to lie in bed, in an orchid bed jacket with ribbons, and be read to by Adele, or Eugene, or her husband. They ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... Divested of that purple of the soul, That potency, that palm of wise ambition, Cast headlong by thy madness from that height, That only eminence 'twixt earth and heaven, Virtue, which some desert, but none despise, Whether thou art beheld again on earth, Whether a captive or a fugitive, Miner or galley-slave, depends on me: But he alone who made me what I am Can make me greater, or ...
— Count Julian • Walter Savage Landor
... lurk about In dismal suburbs and unwholesome lanes I, who am housed worse than the galley slave; I, who am fed worse than the kennelled hound; I, who am clothed in rags,—Beltran ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... make galley-slaves of ourselves on the off-chance of selling. Rainey says that wood camps have sprung up like mushrooms all along the river. The price of wood ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... board and found 'im there with Mrs. Plimmer. However, when we got there I persuaded 'er to go into the office while I went aboard to see if I could find out where he was, and three minutes arterwards he was standing with me behind the galley, trembling all over and ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs


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