gally

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There are irregularities also in the auxiliary verbs gwîl, to do, and gally, to be able, but these have been already given in Chapter IX.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

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

P. Penilesse, in his Supplication to the Divell, says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists," &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Jack was handy in the cabin, and capital feller to carry soup from the gally, aft.

From Jack Tier by Cooper, James Fenimore