gally

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Pd for a gally slabs seate for yeparson 00 01 00 1623.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

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 Mitchell, Thomas

So that in short time, this gally was ready trimmed vp.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard