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Chase :: Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point..

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..

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..

Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery 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..

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..

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 long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall..

Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..

Pinacotheca :: Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.

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..

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Corridor :: Corridor (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.

Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery 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..

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.

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