different between galley vs gally

English

Etymology

From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek ????? (galéa) of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek ????? (galé?), a kind of a small fish, from ?????? (galeós, “dog-fish or small shark”). Doublet of galea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æli/
• Rhymes: -æli

Noun

galley (plural galleys)

2. (nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
3. (Britain) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
4. (nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
5. (nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
6. An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
7. (printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
8. (printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
9. (heraldry) A representation of a single masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.

Synonyms

• (heraldry) lymphad

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bireme
• trireme
• quadrireme
• unireme/monoreme/penteconter
• quinquereme/pentere
• polyreme
• Galley Common

Further reading

• galley on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• egally

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gally (plural gallies)

1. Archaic form of galley.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 200:

     In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.

Etymology 2

From gall +? -y.

Adjective

gally (comparative more gally, superlative most gally)

1. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:

     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 […].

Etymology 3

See gallow (transitive verb).

Verb

gally (third-person singular simple present gallies, present participle gallying, simple past and past participle gallied)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To frighten; to worry.
   • April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden

     The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]

Etymology 4

gal +? -y

Noun

gally (plural not attested)

1. Diminutive of gal (“girl”)

Synonyms

• girlie

References

Anagrams

• gyall

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???j?]
• Rhymes: -?j?

Noun

gally (plural gallyak)

1. twig

Declension

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly