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English : variant spelling of Galley.Ukrainian : nickname meaning ‘hasten’, ‘hurry’, from Proto-Slavic galiti ‘to shout’.
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English : metonymic occupational name for a seaman, from Middle English galy(e) ‘ship’, ‘barge’ (Old French galie, of uncertain origin).English : nickname for someone who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, from a reduced form of the place name Galilee.Scottish : variant of Gall 1, from the derivative gallda or the collective form gallaich.German : presumably a derivative of Gall.Northern French : variant of Gallet. This name is also found in French Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.
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A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
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A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
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Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.
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A removable sliding bottom to galley.
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A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
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A galleyworm.
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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.
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of Galley
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A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
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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.
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A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.
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Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
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A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
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An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.
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An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
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A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped.
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An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
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Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
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A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.