Definition of galley

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Galley (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars..

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Iulus :: Iulus (n.) 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..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Galleass :: Galleass (n.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley..
Pillworm :: Pillworm (n.) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.
Gally :: Gally (n.) See Galley, n., 4..
Galley :: Galley (n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
Cookroom :: Cookroom (n.) A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.
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..
Copper :: Copper (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers..
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.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
Caboose :: Caboose (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley..
Galleys :: Galleys (pl. ) of Galle.
Trireme :: Trireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars..
Thousand Legs :: Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm..
Bireme :: Bireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Dromon :: Dromon () In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel..
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys..
Galley-worm :: Galley-worm (n.) A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or thousand legs. See Chilognatha..
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