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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Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..
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..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..
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..
Amphitheatre :: Amphitheatre (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater..
Pinacotheca :: Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.
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..
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Camonflet :: Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners..
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
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..
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..
Corridor :: Corridor (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
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