Definition of galley

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Galley (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars..

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Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars..
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys..
Ramberge :: Ramberge (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley..
Scampavia :: Scampavia (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century..
Bireme :: Bireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Coursey :: Coursey (n.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
Cuddy :: Cuddy (n.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel..
Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) A galleyworm.
Quadrireme :: Quadrireme (n.) A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Myriapoda :: Myriapoda (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped..
Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley..
Pillworm :: Pillworm (n.) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.
Slip :: Slip (n.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
Copper :: Copper (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers..
Galleass :: Galleass (n.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley..
Galley :: Galley (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc..
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