gally
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of gally
1695–1705; compare earlier gallow, apparently representing Old English agælwan to frighten
Example Sentences
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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 Gates, Eleanor
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 Hakluyt, Richard
There are irregularities also in the auxiliary verbs gwîl, to do, and gally, to be able, but these have been already given in Chapter IX.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry
Here did God hold foorth his buckler, he shieldeth now this gally, and hath tried their faith to the vttermost.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard
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