Galley

[Ship]

GAL'LEY. See Ship.

GAL'LEY. See Ship.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as:

2. A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.

3. A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.

4. A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

5. One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.

6. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

7. An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

8. An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

9. A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof. Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.