Gally

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Archaic form of galley..

Definitions by Sense

1. Archaic form of galley.
2. Characterised by or resembling gall; bitter.
3. (UK, dialect) To frighten, spook; to appall; to worry.
4. Diminutive of gal (“girl”).

Example Sentences

In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.

For by the Dart, which is likewise a pipe, is made a deep passage into the skin, and then by the anger of the Fly, is his gally poisonous liquor injected […].

April 8 1700, Tom Brown, letter to Mr. Briscoe in Covent-Garden The next Day being Sunday, call'd by the Natives of this Country Maze Sunday, (and indeed not without some Reason, for the People look'd as if they were gallied) […]

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• gallies
• more gally
• most gally
• gallying
• gallied

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