Real Tennis. Each of the various openings or galleries around a court, spec. those which are not winning openings. †Also in figurative contexts.

Squash and Real Tennis. The junction between a wall and the floor of the court. Also: a (winning) return in which the ball makes contact with…

In extended use. Real Tennis. Each of sloping roofs above the narrow corridors or galleries running around three sides of a court.

Real Tennis. (See quot. 1878.) winning-gallery (see winning, n.1 compounds).

Real Tennis. The square opening in the end wall on the hazard side of the court, adjacent to the main wall.

The open gallery at the end of the service-side of a tennis court.

Architecture. A projecting part of the wall of a tennis court: see quot. 1816.

(see quot.).

the area in front of the court on the hazard side, lying between the main wall, the end wall, the service line, and the pass line.

the line between the pass court and the service court.

the last gallery on the hazard-side of a tennis court.

(see quots.).

(a) a ‘wing’ in a fishing net (= 6d), or a fishing net with wings; (b) a net at the side of a tennis court.