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Definition: Galley |
GalleyNoun1. A large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading. 2. (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars. 3. The kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner. 4. The area for food preparation on a ship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "galley" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Galley \Gal"ley\, noun; plural Galleys. [Old English gale, galeie (compare to Old French galie, gal['e]e, Late Latin galea, Late Greek; of unknown origin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Compartment in which cooking and other food preparation is done in ships. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Galley (g hard). A printer's frame into which type from the stick (q.v.) is emptied. In the galley the type appears only in columns; it is subsequently divided into pages, and transferred to the "chase" (q.v.). (French, galée.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Large setting stick which holds the type for a whole page. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | GALLEY. Building the galley; a game formerly used at sea, in order to put a trick upon a landsman, or fresh-water sailor. It being agreed to play at that game, one sailor personates the builder, and another the merchant or contractor: the builder first be. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A galley is a long single or half-decked vessel of war, with low free-board, propelled primarily by oars or sweeps, but also having masts for sails. The word is used generally of the ancient war vessels of Greece and Rome of various types (e.g. the trireme), whose chief propelling power was the oar or sweep, but its more specific application is to the medieval war vessel which survived in the navies of the Mediterranean sea-powers after the general adoption of the larger many-decked ship of war, propelled solely by sail-power. The Battle of Lepanto (1571) was the last great naval battle in which the galley played the principal part.
The "galleass" or "galliass" was a larger and heavier form of galley; it usually carried three masts and had at bow and stern a castellated structure. The "galliot" was a small, light type of galley. The galleon was a sailing ship of war and trade, shorter than the galley and standing high out of the water with several decks, chiefly used by the Spaniards during the 16th century in the carrying of treasure from the Americas. The number of oars or sweeps varied, the larger galley having twenty-five on each side; the galleass as many as thirty-two, each being worked by several men.
The labor of rowing was from the earliest times often performed by slaves or prisoners of war. It became the custom among the Mediterranean powers to sentence condemned criminals to row in the war galleys of the state. Traces of this in France can be found as early as 1532, but the first legislative enactment is in the Ordonnance d'Orléans of 1561. In 1564 Charles IX of France forbade the sentencing of prisoners to the galleys for less than ten years. The galley-slaves were branded with the letters GAL. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV of France the use of the galley for war purposes had practically ceased, but the corps of the galleys was not incorporated with the navy till 1748. The headquarters of the galleys and of the convict rowers (galériens) was at Marseilles. The majority of these latter were brought to Toulon, the others were sent to Rochefort and Brest, where they were used for working in the arsenal. At Toulon the convicts remained (in chains) on the galleys, which were moored as hulks in the harbour. Shore prisons were, however, provided for them, known as bagnes, "baths," a name given to such penal establishments first by the Italians (bagno) , and said to have been derived from the prison at Constantinople situated close by or attached to the great baths there. The name galerien was still given to all convicts, though the galleys had been abandoned, and it was not till the French Revolution that the hated name with all it signified was changed to forcat. In Spain galera is (in 1911) still used for a criminal condemned to penal servitude.
A vivid account of the life of galley-slaves in France is given in Jean Marteilhes's Memoirs of a Protestant, translated by Oliver Goldsmith, which describes the experiences of one of the Huguenots who suffered after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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Synonyms: GalleySynonyms: caboose (n), cookhouse (n), ship's galley (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. |
Printing | Folio; (book); copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise. |
Ship | Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Galley |
| English words defined with "galley": Bireme ♦ Cookroom, Coursey, cuddy ♦ Dromon ♦ Galiot, Galleass, galley slave, Galley slice, Galleys, Gally ♦ Quadrireme, Quinquereme ♦ Ramberge ♦ Scampavia, Smoke sail ♦ trireme. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "galley": caster operator, CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, CHEF, PASSENGER VESSEL, composing-machine operator, cook, boat, COOK, MESS, cook, ship, country printer ♦ flat proof ♦ GALLEY FOIST, Galley Pence, GALLEY STRIPPER, GALLIED, Greenlandman's Galley ♦ LINOTYPE OPERATOR ♦ MAKE-UP ARRANGER, MDL, monotype caster ♦ PASSENGER ATTENDANT, pipe fitter, marine, PROOFSHEET CORRECTOR ♦ rough proof ♦ stone hand ♦ type caster. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "galley": Galley-worm. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Galley Slave (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The galley slave getting ready to prepare the evening meal. Aboard the headboat YANKEE CAPTAIN out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Chief Cook Doretha and 2nd Cook Sarah Satterfield prepare another fine meal in the ship's galley. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | The gleaming galley of the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Wreck of USS Chauncey (DD-296) near shore, during salvage operations some time after 8 September 1923, when she went aground on Honda Point with six other destroyers. Sheer legs are rigged atop her galley deckhouse to assist in removing items from the ship. Her midships 4"/50 guns have already been sent ashore. The wreck of USS Woodbury (DD-309) is in the middle distance. Photographed by Sever. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Mess Management Specialist 2nd Class Martin A. Kruz stirs brown gravy for the evening meal, in the Destroyer's galley, 15 September 1975. Photographed by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Carl R. Begy. Credit: NAVY. |  | U.S.S. Iowa, the galley. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S.S. Newark galley. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cook of El Rito in galley of packet boat on lower Mississippi River. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dinner in the galley of the El Rito, packet boat, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The galley slave Bartley Campbell's picturesqe [sic] drama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Galley Head Light, Co Cork Ire" by Pat McArdle Commentary: "Galley Head Lighthouse in west Cork at night. took the shot by exposing for around 2 mins and throwing light fill-in flash at the lighthouse (around 20 flashes at one sixteenth strength). Image works best in portrait format. Feel free to use it but let me" |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | All which distinct powers happening sometimes together in the same man, if he be considered under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was a convict I saw twenty years ago, when I was adjutant of the galley guard at Toulon |
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| "Galley" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Galley" is used about 234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.44% | 228 | 19,909 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 234 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "galley" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Galley | Last name | 400 | 23,034 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "galley": galley proof ♦ galley slave ♦ Galley slice ♦ ship's galley. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "galley": Galley-bird, galley-like, galley-proof, galley-slaves, galley-type, Galley-worm. | |
Ending with "galley": cook-galley. | |
Containing "galley": bank-clerkcum-greek-galley-slave. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "galley"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | galerë, gale faqosësi, tabaka radhimi, kuzhinë anijeje. (various references) | |
Arabic | مطبخ السفينة, لوح الطباعة, القادس سفينة مجاديف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шпалта (column, proof, proof sheet, slip), кухня на самолет, компас (compass, dial, setting-stick, stick), камбуз, галера (galliot), вид тясна бързоходна лодка, малък едномачтов кораб. (various references) | |
Chinese | 船上厨房 (Galleys). (various references) | |
Czech | galej, lodní kuchynì, kuchyòka v letadle. (various references) | |
Danish | satsskib, kabys. (various references) | |
Dutch | galei, scheepskeuken, kombuis. (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتی پاروءی یابادبانی قرون وسطی , اشپزخانه (Cookery, Kitchen), رامکا, رانکا. (various references) | |
Finnish | laivakeittiö, keittiö (kitchen), kapyysi, kaljaasi. (various references) | |
French | galée. (various references) | |
German | galeere, setzschiff, schiff (aisle, boat, boiler, nave, sail, ship, transept, vessel), kombüse (caboose, cookhouse). (various references) | |
Greek | μαγειρείο πλοίου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפרשית משוטים, מטבח אניה, הגהה (annotation, emendation, proof, proofreading). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gálya (galleon), hajókonyha (caboose). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perahu (ark, barge, boat, canoe, pram, sailboat), dapur (cuisine, firebox, kiln, kitchen, stove). (various references) | |
Italian | cucina (cooker, cookery, cooking, cuisine, kitchen, stove). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 炊事場 (cookhouse, kitchen), 厨房 (kitchen), ガリレイ式望遠鏡 (boy, Galilean telescope, Galileo, garage, garage sale, garniture). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいじば (cookhouse, kitchen), ガレー , ちゅうぼう (helmet liner, kitchen). (various references) | |
Korean | 게라 (Galleys). (various references) | |
Manx | thie coagyrey, shamyr aarlee (caboose, kitchen), gallee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | bysse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alleygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galé. (various references) | |
Romanian | galerã, bucãtãrie pe vapor, şpalt (slip). (various references) | |
Russian | галера. (various references) | |
Scottish | birlinn (a galley, bark, pleasure boat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | galija (galleass, gaul), kuhinja (cook-room, cuisine, kitchen). (various references) | |
Spanish | galera (mantis squillid), cocina (caboose, cookery, cook-galley, cooking, cook-room, cuisine, kitchen, oven, stove). (various references) | |
Swedish | pentry, kabyss (caboose, cookhouse), galär. (various references) | |
Turkish | gemi mutfağı (caboose), roma kürek gemisi, kadırga (gallelas, gallilas), dizgi tablası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | галера, вельбот (balinger, whale boat, whaler). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | những công việc khổ sai, chạy bằng buồm và chèo. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhwyflong. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 33, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti to onoma kuriou mega umin topoV umin estai potamoi kai diwrugeV plateiV kai eurucwroi ou poreush tauthn thn odon oude poreusetai ploion elaunon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quia solummodo ibi magnificus Dominus noster locus fluviorum rivi latissimi et patentes non transibit per eum navis remigum neque trieris magna transgredietur eum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For onli there the grete doyng, Lord oure God; the place of flodes ryueres most brod and opene; ther entride not bi it the ship of roweres, ne the grete ship of thre stagis shal not ouergon it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But there the glorious LORD will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams; in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass through it. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 33, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | Apan didto si Jehova magauban kanato sa pagkahalangdon, usa ka dapit sa halagpad nga suba ug mga sapa, diin walay moagi nga dagkung sakayan nga may mga gayong, ni manglabay niini ang mga sakayan nga maambong. |
| Croatian | Ondje nam je Jahve silni, umjesto rijeka i širokih rukavaca: neæe onud proæi nijedna laða s veslima niti æe koji bojni brod projedriti. |
| Danish | Nej der træder HERRENs Bæk for os i Floders og brede Strømmes Sted; der kan ej Åreskib gå, ej vældigt Langskib sejle. |
| Dutch | Maar de HEERE zal aldaar bij ons heerlijk zijn, het zal zijn een plaats van rivieren, van wijde stromen; geen roeischuit zal daar doorvaren, en geen treffelijk schip zal daar overvaren. |
| Finnish | Sillä voimallinen on meillä siellä Herra, siellä on joet, on virrat, leveät rannasta toiseen, joita ei kulje soutualus, joiden poikki ei pääse uljas laiva. |
| German | Denn der HERR wird mächtig daselbst bei uns sein, gleich als wären da weite Wassergräben, darüber kein Schiff mit Rudern fahren noch Galeeren schiffen können. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | TUHAN akan memperlihatkan keagungan-Nya kepada kita. Kita akan hidup di tepi sungai yang lebar, yang tak dapat dilayari kapal musuh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Melainkan di sana Tuhan akan mulia serta kami di tempat yang bersungai-sungai dan berair yang luas-luas; sebuah perahu berdayungpun tiada dapat menyeberang dia dan sebuah kapal besarpun tiada dapat melalui dia. |
| Maori | Engari ki reira a Ihowa ki a tatou me tona nui, hei wahi mo nga awa whanui mo nga wai nunui; kahore hoki he waka e hoehoea ki reira, kahore he kaipuke nui e tika na reira. |
| Norwegian | Men der skal vi ha Herren, den Veldige, i stedet for brede elver og strømmer; ingen roskute skal gå der, intet mektig krigsskib fare der. |
| Portuguese | Mas o Senhor ali estará conosco em majestade, nesse lugar de largos rios e correntes, no qual não entrará barco de remo, nem por ele passará navio grande. |
| Rumanian | Da, acolo cu adevqrat Domnul este minunat pentru noi: El ne yine loc de rkuri, de pkraie late, unde totuw nu pqtrund corqbii cu lopeyi, wi nu trece niciun vas puternic. |
| Russian | фБН Х ОБУ ЧЕМЙЛЙК зПУРПДШ ВХДЕФ ЧНЕУФП ТЕЛ, ЧНЕУФП ЫЙТПЛЙИ ЛБОБМПЧ; ФХДБ ОЕ ЧПКДЕФ ОЙ ПДОП ЧЕУЕМШОПЕ УХДОП, Й ОЕ РТПКДЕФ ВПМШЫПК ЛПТБВМШ. |
| Swedish | Ja, vi hava där HERREN, den väldige; han är för oss såsom floder och breda strömmar; ingen roddflotta kommer där fram, och det väldigaste skepp kan ej fara däröver. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "galley": galleys. (additional references) | |
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"Galley" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Galai, galay, Galby, Galeb, galec, galex, galexy, galey, galky, gallay, gallei, gallen, galler, gallet, Gallix, gallley, gallry, Gallwey, Gallyer, galweay, Galwex, Ganley, garley, gasly, Geally, gellen, geller, Gelsey, Gilluly, Ginley, glacey, glasey, gley, Goatley, Goleby, golle, Gomley, Gramley, gullea, gulley, Ogilvey, Ralley. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "galley" (pronounced ga"lē) |
| 3 | -a" l ē | alley, bally, dally, finale, rally, Sally, tally, valley, verbally. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-l-y" | |
-1 letter: agley, alley, gally, legal. | |
-2 letters: agly, ally, egal, gale, gall, gley, leal, yell. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, all, aye, ell, gae, gal, gay, gel, gey, lag, lay, lea, leg, ley, lye, yea. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, al, ay, el, la, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-l-y" | |
+1 letter: agilely, allergy, gallery, galleys, langley, largely, legally, regally. | |
+2 letters: allegory, genially, gravelly, langleys, legality. | |
+3 letters: agelessly, allegedly, elegantly, geminally, generally, genically, genitally, hypallage, illegally, laryngeal, regularly, villagery. | |
+4 letters: angelology, balneology, eyeballing, gallerying, galleryite, germinally, gesturally, gladsomely, gracefully, gratefully, hypallages, illegality, integrally, laryngeals, metallurgy, obligately, plangently, pleadingly, pleasingly, regionally. | |
+5 letters: angelically, appealingly, ballyragged, bellyaching, bullyragged, changefully, collegially, congenially, elegiacally, eugenically, falteringly, gallerygoer, galleryites, gametically, generically, genetically, genitivally, gentlemanly, glycosylate, gracelessly, hexagonally, inelegantly, irregularly, lallygagged, legendarily, lollygagged, planetology, regardfully, revealingly, segmentally, vestigially, viceregally. | |
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