gally
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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
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 James Jennings
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
I have been chained to that gally thirty years, a long shot.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
We've all been gallied at the dairy at what might ha' been a most terrible affliction since you and your Mis'ess—so to name her now—left us this a'ternoon.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
All I'm gallied about is what the others'll think.
From Isle o' Dreams by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
Getting away in good style, we had barely got the sails up, when something gallied the school.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
But he was frightened, or "gallied," as they call it; and noon came, and the boat was still chasing him.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
Every look-out from a mast-head notices that, when one whale is struck, at the very impact of the harpoon the whole school is "gallied" or stampeded as they hear the death-song.
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
