gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
This term I understood from the Bungan tribe to mean saltwater; water being kally, gally, or gallo.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Thomas Mitchell
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 Sir Walter Scott
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 Richard Hakluyt
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 Sir Edward Belcher
No mistake, Moore looked a bit gallied on it; an' he hum'd an' ha'd, an' threatened to brain Tregarvis if he laid a hand on the hide.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
What did the captain say when he paid you off B+" "He didn't say he was gallied," replied the sailor, with a knowing look, "but I'll bet he is.
From Marcy The Blockade Runner by George G. (George Gorgas) White
All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
He is to write to us first—God knows when!—for he said that if we didn’t hear from him for six months we were not to be gallied at all.’
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
It gallied our friends effectually, sending them flying in different directions at the top of their speed.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
