gally

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I'd a soon be a gally slave, as lead the life she did!

From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The galley or gally is also the name of the ship's hearth or kitchen, being the place where the grates are put up and the victuals cooked.

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

Our men might walke in the gally fore and after, some of vs taried, and some went out againe.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Hakluyt, Richard

“Excuse me,” I says to him, “but wasn’t you talkin’ to a young lady just now? and if it ain’t too gally, can I in-quire who she is?”

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor