galley

IPA: gˈæɫi

(nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
(Britain) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
(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.
(printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
(heraldry) A representation of a single masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.
A surname.

Examples of "galley" in Sentences

You might, perhaps, come across the term galley proofs.
Clean in galley, clean in steerage, clean in everything.
The floor of the galley is a couple of feet above the inside bottom of the
Not one of these warriors, not even Arai would let you live (p. 7 in galley).
He reads my work when they are in galley stage and he's usually amazed that I'm able to make all this stuff up.
He walked past the humans 'sleeping quarters, past the place of food they called the galley, until he was standing in the passage that opened into the open bubble of the cockpit.
There is an original story galley from a DAW anthology – my story “For These Things I Am Truly Thankful,” signed and with a cover flat from the anthology Haunted Holidays, where it appeared.
Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odour of their frying; while dolphin meat is served fore and aft on such occasions as Johnson catches the blazing beauties from the bowsprit end.
The floor of the galley is a couple of feet above the inside bottom of the Snark; and yet I have stood on the floor of the galley, trying to snatch a cold bite, and been wet to the knees by the water churning around inside four hours after the last pumping.