Defn: Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.
6. (Mining)
Defn: A working drift or level. Whispering gallery. See under
Whispering.
GALLETYLE
Gal"le*tyle, n. Etym: [OE. gallytile. Cf. Gallipot.]
Defn: A little tile of glazed earthenware. [Obs.] "The substance of galletyle." Bacon.
GALLEY Gal"ley, n.; pl. Galleys. Etym: [OE. gale, galeie (cf. OF. galie, galée, LL. galea, LGr.
1. (Naut.)
Defn: A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as: (a) A large vessel for war and national purposes; — common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century. (b) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars. (c) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure. (d) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
Note: The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and was very efficient in mediaeval walfare. Galleons, galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys were all modifications of this type.
2. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; — sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.