galley
1. any of various kinds of ship propelled by oars or sails used in ancient or medieval times as a warship or as a trader
2. the kitchen of a ship, boat, or aircraft
3. any of various long rowing boats
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galley
[′gal·ē] (engineering)
The kitchen of a ship, airplane, or trailer.
(graphic arts)
A flat, oblong, open-ended tray into which the letters assembled by hand in a composing stick are transferred after the composing stick is full.
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galley
The onboard meal service preparation area.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Galley
a wooden rowing warship created by the Venetians in the seventh century. It was 40-50 m long and about 6 m wide, with a draft of about 2 m and one row of 16 to 25 pairs of oars. Each oar was operated by five or six slave oarsmen who wore leg chains; the whole crew together with the soldiers was about 450 men. The speed of the galley was up to 7 knots (13 km/hr) in calm weather. It had two masts with sails fore and aft. From the 14th century on, its artillery consisted of five guns. The bow was equipped with an above-water ram. The fleets of all countries had galleys. In Russia, Peter I in the late 17th century created a galley fleet, which developed parallel to the sailing ships until the late 18th century. On the Russian galleys the oarsmen were soldiers.
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