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
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
Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
The galley or gally is also the name of the ship's hearth or kitchen, being the place where the grates are put up and the victuals cooked.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
Getting away in good style, we had barely got the sails up, when something gallied the school.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
We've all been gallied at the dairy at what might ha' been a most terrible affliction since you and your Mis'ess—so to name her now—left us this a'ternoon.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
But he was frightened, or "gallied," as they call it; and noon came, and the boat was still chasing him.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
It was left in her bedroom, and we be fairly gallied out of our senses!'
From The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
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
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