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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Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..
Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
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.
Gallery :: 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..
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..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Triforium :: Triforium (n.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows..
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
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.
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
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