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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.

Galley :: Galley (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century..

Milleped :: Milleped (n.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm..

Quinquereme :: Quinquereme (n.) A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme..

Galley :: Galley (n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not.

Quadrireme :: Quadrireme (n.) A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

Scampavia :: Scampavia (n.) A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century..

Thousand Legs :: Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm..

Station :: Station (n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

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..

Trireme :: Trireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars..

Gally :: Gally (n.) See Galley, n., 4..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) A galleyworm.

Copper :: Copper (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers..

Galley :: Galley (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

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..

Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley..

Galley-bird :: Galley-bird (n.) The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker..

Pillworm :: Pillworm (n.) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.

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