What is the meaning of GALLEY. Phrases containing GALLEY
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Galley yarn is nautical slang for a rumour.
1. Food, specifically a meal served by a naval galley. 2. Personal belongings that are laying about (sculling), when they should be stowed.
a small cup; a small tub used on a sealer (boat) for taking food from the galley
The kitchen of a ship.
Knock galley−west is American slang for knock into confusion, inaction, or unconsciousness.
(RN) The galley smokestack. Charlie Noble was an Admiral who insisted that the (brass or copper) galley smokestack be polished for inspections.
1. The ram on the prow of a fighting galley of ancient and medieval times. 2. The protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship of the 16th to the 18th century, usually ornate, used as a working platform by sailors handling the sails of the bowsprit. It also housed the crew's heads (toilets).
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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 removable sliding bottom to galley.
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A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
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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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Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
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An ancient galley or vessel with tree 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 two banks or tiers of oars.
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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 proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
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A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
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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 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 having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
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A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
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Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
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A galleyworm.
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A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
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