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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Arcade :: Arcade (n.) A long, arched building or gallery..
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..
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
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..
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..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..
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..
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..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
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..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
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