gally

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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

The galley or gally is also the name of the ship's hearth or kitchen, being the place where the grates are put up and the victuals cooked.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

But it's best no to be rash; sticking disna gang by strength, but by the guiding o' the gally.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

I have been chained to that gally thirty years, a long shot.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

P. Penilesse, in his Supplication to the Divell, says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists," &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir