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

“Excuse me,” I says to him, “but wasn’t you talkin’ to a young lady just now? and if it ain’t too gally, can I in-quire who she is?”

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor

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

The canons let flie from both sides, and the gally is euen in the middest, and betweene them both.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard