galley

plural galleys · obsolete plural gallies

1. historicalnauticalA long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
2. UKA light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
3. nauticalOne of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
4. nauticalThe cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
5. An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
6. mediaAn oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

   It was very nerve-racking. When I was finally able to write the story, I wrote it at the typewriter and never reread it until I had to edit the typos on the printer's galleys for the publication of the book.

   1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8

7. mediaA proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
8. governmentA representation of a single-masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.

plural Galleys

1. A surname.