Definition of gallery

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Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc..

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Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
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..
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
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..
Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
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..
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..
Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
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..
Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..
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..
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