Definition of gallery

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Gallery (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal..

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Subworker :: Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..
Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..
Piazza :: Piazza (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Exhibit :: Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Atrium :: Atrium (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..
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