gally
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of gally
1695–1705; compare earlier gallow, apparently representing Old English agælwan to frighten
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Excuse me,” I says to him, “but wasn’t you talkin’ to a young lady just now? and if it ain’t too gally, can I in-quire who she is?”
From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Eleanor Gates
I have been chained to that gally thirty years, a long shot.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
Our men might walke in the gally fore and after, some of vs taried, and some went out againe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
He feared that the noise would gally the quarry; a whale has remarkable hearing in certain circumstances.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
"Talk of 'em to-morrow," said Ann; "you've gallied your brains enough for fifty fathers."
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
What did the captain say when he paid you off B+" "He didn't say he was gallied," replied the sailor, with a knowing look, "but I'll bet he is.
From Marcy The Blockade Runner by George G. (George Gorgas) White
It gallied our friends effectually, sending them flying in different directions at the top of their speed.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
He is to write to us first—God knows when!—for he said that if we didn’t hear from him for six months we were not to be gallied at all.’
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Every look-out from a mast-head notices that, when one whale is struck, at the very impact of the harpoon the whole school is "gallied" or stampeded as they hear the death-song.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
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