gally

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lord zur! an why d'ye bring en here     To gally âll tha people?

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

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 Mitchell, Thomas

I'd a soon be a gally slave, as lead the life she did!

From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The gally had seuen pieces of brasse in her prowe, small and great, she had thirty bankes or oares on either side, and at euery banke or oare seuen men to rowe.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard