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ˈrow-galley Now Hist.
[f. row v.1 + galley n.]
A galley moved or propelled by oars.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 22 Three Galies of force, with diuerse Foystes & Rowgalies. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 28/1 Cesar..got together 80 saile of great ships and row gallies. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 326 A rowgaylay weil furnist. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vi. 202 Two Row-gallies of thirty-six oars a-piece. 1795Nelson 7 Feb. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 5 The Enemy would have had the Ports of this Island full of Row-galleys. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy (1863) 215 It is a galley, sir—one of the row galleys—I can make out her bank of oars. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. x. 439 Two British ships..captured or destroyed the four American row-galleys in the river. |