Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like gall; bitter as gall.
- Characterized by galls or abraded spots.
- Same as gallow.
- n. An obsolete or occasional spelling of galley.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of galley.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Obs. or Prov. Eng. To frighten; to worry.
- adj. Like gall; bitter as gall.
- n. See galley, n., 4.
Examples
“The downside of spraying gally-proofs all over the place is that they end up for sale on eBay.”
“We we just about comin into Pearl Harbor, an after bringin up the lines from the stern holds for tiein up, i stepped into the gally an just tapped a mate on the shoulder, "we made it" i said.”
“Submit gally proof of books to be published in November and December.”
“Gosh-gally….. how insulting to us in the education field.”
“OURGALLY, as in "Our gally just graduated from her fine arts course.”
“All the individuals in the file were keeping money ille - gally in offshore bank accounts.”
“The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“After whose departure wee shaped our course toward Cape Sacre, and in the way thither wee tooke at seuerall times of ships, barkes, and Carauels well neere an hundred, laden with hoopes, gally-oares, pipe-staues, and other prouisions of the king of”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“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.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Our men might walke in the gally fore and after, some of vs taried, and some went out againe.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "He had a way of calling a whisper, loud enough for us all to hear, but not loud enough to gally the whales."
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch, p 96 of the Doubleday hardcover Jan 10, 2012
chained_bear "...the need to remain as quiet as possible so as not to alarm or 'gally' the whale..."
--Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 51 May 1, 2008