quarter-galley love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to a Barbary man-of-war.

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Examples

  • These earees did not scruple to pilfer whatever came in their way, and one of them, who pretended to be very friendly, was found handing articles which did not belong to him out of the quarter-galley.

    Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • It required some address to get them alongside, but at last a hatchet and some spike-nails induced the people in one canoe to venture under the quarter-galley.

    Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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