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
When the auxiliaries gwîl and gally are used to form a passive, it is sometimes the auxiliary that takes the passive form.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
“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
The poope or sterne of his gally was gilded both within and without, and vnder his feet, and where he sate was all couered with very rich Tapistry.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe 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
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
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 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
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
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