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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a seaman, from Middle English galy(e) ‘ship’, ‘barge’ (Old French galie, of uncertain origin).English : nickname for someone who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, from a reduced form of the place name Galilee.Scottish : variant of Gall 1, from the derivative gallda or the collective form gallaich.German : presumably a derivative of Gall.Northern French : variant of Gallet. This name is also found in French Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.
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English
English : variant spelling of Galley.Ukrainian : nickname meaning ‘hasten’, ‘hurry’, from Proto-Slavic galiti ‘to shout’.
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Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
An Ocean of Knowledge
Boy/Male
Hindu
Intelligent, Wise, Clever
Boy/Male
Afghan, Arabic, Australian, Iranian, Muslim, Parsi
Rare
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Noble; Dear One; Clever
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English (chiefly East Anglia and East Midlands)
English (chiefly East Anglia and East Midlands) : from the Old English personal name FrÄ“ostÄn, composed of the elements frÄ“o ‘free’, ‘noble’, ‘generous’ + stÄn ‘stone’.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Telugu
Composed; Charming; Prosperity; Lucky
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Wife of Lord Shiva
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English
English : habitational name from Seaford in East Sussex, named in Old English with sǣ ‘sea’ + ford ‘ford’; until the 16th century the Ouse river flowed into the sea here.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
One Having Godly Merits; God; Qualities of God; Dawn
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Celtic, Christian, Dutch, French, German, Swiss
Tribe Woman; Of the Race of Women; Juniper Tree; White Wave; Woman; Race of Women; White Race
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Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
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A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
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A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
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An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
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A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
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A galleyworm.
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A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
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.
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A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
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of Galley
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Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.
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A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.
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A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
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An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
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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.
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An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
v. t.
A removable sliding bottom to galley.
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A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
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Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.