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GALLEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The area for food preparation on a ship
Synonyms:
caboose; cookhouse; galley; ship's galley
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("galley" is a kind of...):
kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "galley"):
cuddy (the galley or pantry of a small ship)
Holonyms ("galley" is a part of...):
ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("galley" is a kind of...):
kitchen (a room equipped for preparing meals)
Holonyms ("galley" is a part of...):
airliner (a commercial airplane that carries passengers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("galley" is a kind of...):
vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "galley"):
trireme (ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("galley" is a kind of...):
vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)
Context examples:
I had been swept against the galley and around the steerage companion-way from the weather side into the lee scuppers.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Aye, aye, sir,” answered the cook, and touching his forelock, he disappeared at once in the direction of his galley.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They have come in two great galleys, answered the mayor, with two bank of oars on either side, and great store of engines of war and of men-at-arms.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the cook was after me, shouting through the lee galley door: ’Ere, you! Don’t tyke all night about it! Where’s the pot? Lost overboard?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The whole schooner had been overhauled; six berths had been made astern out of what had been the after-part of the main hold; and this set of cabins was only joined to the galley and forecastle by a sparred passage on the port side.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We have seen French and Spanish galleys no further away than Southampton, but I doubt that it will be some time before the Scots find their way to these parts.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then I told him the whole circumstance, how my clothes had been left to dry in the galley, and how, later, I was nearly beaten by the cook when I mentioned the matter.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To me he was unweariedly kind, and always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept as clean as a new pin, the dishes hanging up burnished and his parrot in a cage in one corner.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We went forth in little ships and came back in great galleys—for of fifty tall ships of Spain, over two score flew the Cross of St. George ere the sun had set.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I stopped, for I did not know what was coming, and saw the galley door slide shut with a bang.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
