GALLEYS
Proper noun
Galleys
plural of Galley
Noun
galleys
plural of galley
Source: Wiktionary
GALLEY
Gal"ley, n.; pl. Galleys. Etym: [OE. gale, galeie (cf. OF. galie,
galée, LL. galea, LGr.
1. (Naut.)
Definition: A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or
not; as:
(a) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the
Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
(b) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient
vessels propelled by oars.
(c) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers,
press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(d) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
Note: The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to
two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had
two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and
stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and
was very efficient in mediaeval walfare. Galleons, galliots,
galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications
of this type.
2. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; --
sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
3. (Chem.)
Definition: An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery
furnace.
4. Etym: [F. galée; the same word as E. galley a vessel.] (Print.)
(a) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding
type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
(b) 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition