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Definitions: Galley Slave |
Galley SlaveNoun1. A slave condemned to row in a galley. 2. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Galley SlaveSynonyms: drudge (n), navvy (n), peon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exertion | Work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel; (resolution); work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to; (persevere) a; work one's way, fight one's way; lay about one, hammer at. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Galley Slave |
| Specialty definitions using "galley slave": GALLIED. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Galley Slave (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is a sort of a thief, a second offender, a galley slave, a case of robbery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
galley slave | 16 |
female galley slave | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "galley slave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | роб (addict, bondservant, bondslave, bondsman, chattel, helot, mameluke, predial, serf, slave, thrall, vassal), каторжник (lag, transport). (various references) | |
Czech | galejník. (various references) | |
Greek | κατάδικοσ (convict, lag, prisoner). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gályarab. (various references) | |
Manx | sleab birling. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alleygay aveslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cozinha de navio, apoplético (apoplectic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veslač na galiji, rob (bondservant, bondslave, chattel, helot, mameluke, menial, slave, thrall, villein). (various references) | |
Swedish | galärslav (galley-slave). (various references) | |
Thai | ทาสที่เป็นฝีพายเรือ galley. (various references) | |
Turkish | kürek mahkümu, forsa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-l-l-l-s-v-y" | |
-3 letters: salvagee, savagely. | |
-4 letters: alleges, alleles, galleys, lavages, legally, levelly, salvage, selvage, vagally, valleys. | |
-5 letters: agaves, allays, allees, allege, allele, alleys, allyls, eagles, galeae, galeas, galley, gavels, gayals, lavage, leally, leaves, legals, levels, sagely, savage, slavey, sleave, sylvae, valley. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-l-l-l-s-v-y" | |
+5 letters: evangelistically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 6C 65 79 53 6C 61 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01111001 00100000 01010011 01101100 01100001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l l e y   S l a v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 006C 0065 0079 0053 006C 0061 0076 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41677878719125378678871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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