Galley

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: gal=ley

CIDE DICTIONARY

Galley, n. [OE. gale, galeie (cf. OF. galie, galée, LL. galea, LGr. ; of unknown origin.].

•  A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not  [1913 Webster]

  " The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. Galleons, galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications of this type."  [1913 Webster]
•  The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.  [1913 Webster]
•  An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.  [1913 Webster]
•  An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.  [1913 Webster]

Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. “To toil like a galley slave.” Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Galley, n. (pl. -eys)
1 hist. a a low flat single-decked vessel using sails and oars, and usu. rowed by slaves or criminals. b an ancient Greek or Roman warship with one or more banks of oars. c a large open rowing-boat, e.g. that used by the captain of a man-of-war.
2 a ship's or aircraft's kitchen.
3 Printing a an oblong tray for set type. b the corresponding part of a composing-machine. c (in full galley proof) a proof in the form of long single-column strips from type in a galley, not in sheets or pages.

Idiom

galley-slave
1 hist. a person condemned to row in a galley.
2 a drudge.

Etymology

ME f. OF galie f. med.L galea, med.Gk galaia

THESAURUS

Galley

bakehouse, bakery, bireme, blue, blueprint, caboose, camboose, cold-type proof, color proof, computer proof, cookery, cookhouse, cookroom, cuisine, foist, foundry proof, galiot, galleass, galley proof, kitchen, kitchenette, page proof, penteconter, plate proof, press proof, progressive proof, proof, proof sheet, pull, quadrireme, quinquereme, repro proof, revise, sail, sailboat, sailing boat, sailing cruiser, sailing ship, sailing vessel, scullery, slip, stone proof, tall ship, tessaraconter, trial impression, trireme, vandyke, war galley, windboat, windjammer, windship

ROGET THESAURUS

Galley

Ship

N ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, 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, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.