Definition of gallery

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Gallery (a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall..

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Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A working drift or level.
Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
Sill :: Sill (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..
Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..
Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Poecile :: Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Exhibit :: Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery..
Corridor :: Corridor (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc..
Chase :: Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point..
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Camonflet :: Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners..
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