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A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof. Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]

A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.

r armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.

Comparison. [Archaic] His mighty champion, strong beyond compare. Milton. Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships. Waller.

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.

to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.

In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel. [Hist. or Archaic] Fuller. The great dromond swinging from the quay. W. Morris.

A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley. [Written variously galeas, gallias, etc.]

See Galley, n., 4.

rous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha.

A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]

To cast anchor; to become fast. On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.