Definition of gallery

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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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Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.
Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
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..
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..
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..
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..
Gallery :: 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..
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
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..
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..
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..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
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..
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..
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..
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