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
This term I understood from the Bungan tribe to mean saltwater; water being kally, gally, or gallo.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
The canons let flie from both sides, and the gally is euen in the middest, and betweene them both.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
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
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
"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
No mistake, Moore looked a bit gallied on it; an' he hum'd an' ha'd, an' threatened to brain Tregarvis if he laid a hand on the hide.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
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
It was left in her bedroom, and we be fairly gallied out of our senses!'
From The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
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