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gallies

gallies is the plural of galley.

gallies is the plural of gally.

Meaning of galley

Noun

galley (plural galleys or (obsolete) gallies)

  1. (historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
  2. (UK) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  3. One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  4. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
  5. An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
  6. An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
    • It was very nerve-racking. When I was finally able to write the story, I wrote it at the typewriter and never reread it until I had to edit the typos on the printer's galleys for the publication of the book.1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8

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Meaning of gally

Adjective

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

  1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
    • For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV

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Questions about gallies

What is gallies the plural of?
Gallies is the plural of galley.

Words near gallies in the dictionary

  1. gallid
  2. gallidermin
  3. gallied
  4. Gallien
  5. Gallienus
  6. gallies
  7. galliferous
  8. gallification
  9. Gallified
  10. galliform
  11. galliforms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gallies (page history and authors); galley (page history and authors); gally (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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