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Word: galley
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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.
Source: Wiktionary
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