Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like gall; bitter as gall.
- noun An obsolete or occasional spelling of
galley . - Same as
gallow . - Characterized by galls or abraded spots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To frighten; to worry.
- adjective Like gall; bitter as gall.
- noun See
galley , n., 4.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
galley .
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Examples
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The downside of spraying gally-proofs all over the place is that they end up for sale on eBay.
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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.
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Submit gally proof of books to be published in November and December.
PJ contest calendar 2006
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OURGALLY, as in "Our gally just graduated from her fine arts course."
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Gosh-gally….. how insulting to us in the education field.
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Submit gally proof of books to be published in November and December.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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OURGALLY, as in "Our gally just graduated from her fine arts course."
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All the individuals in the file were keeping money ille - gally in offshore bank accounts.
Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005
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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 2003
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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 2003
chained_bear commented on the word gally
"...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
knitandpurl commented on the word gally
"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
January 11, 2012