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
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
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 Henry Jenner
But it's best no to be rash; sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gally.
From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
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
"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
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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