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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Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..
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..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
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..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater..
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..
Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.
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..
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..
Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
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.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..
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..
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..
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