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Meaning:

Noun:

  • An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
  • British A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  • nautical A ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not.
  • nautical One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  • nautical The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
  • printing An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
  • printing A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

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