| 单词 | the galleys |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe galleys a. A low flat-built seagoing vessel with one deck, propelled by sails and oars, formerly in common use in the Mediterranean. Cf. galliass n. The rowers were mostly slaves or condemned criminals. Hence phr. to condemn, or send, to the galleys, and simply the galleys, to indicate the punishment of a galley slave. half, quarter galley (see quot. 1794). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > galley galleya1300 fust1481 foist1485 row-galley1513 langfadc1540 lymphadc1540 crumster1596 a1300 K. Horn 185 Us he dude lede Into a galeie, Wiþ þe se to pleie..Wiþute sail and roþer. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 54 Þe erle..did mak a riche galeie With fourscore armed knyghtes. c1440 Generydes 4105 He saw a galy fayre and strong lay atte rode. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. (1483) 293 He lete make galeys of werre. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xx. 55 He shall..delyuer you shype or galee suche as shall be nessessary for you. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxvijv Besides those that were put to death..very many were also condempned to the Galees. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xii. 297 This course hath emptied more full, then filled empty purses, and many thereby have brought a Galeon to a Gally. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlix. 193 His Fleet..was composed of five Foists, four Galliots, and one Gally Royal. 1682 News from France 10 No Sea-man nor Trades-man shall offer to go out of the Kingdom without leave, under the pain of being sent to the Gallies. 1699 A. Roberts Voy. Levant 15 At length we saw the half Galleys go their way. 1721 London Gaz. No. 5982/2 Above London-Bridge [they] met with two Gallies, one rowing with Fourteen Oars, and the other with Eleven, loaden with Goods. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 238 Half and Quarter Galleys are rigged and navigated the same as galleys; and take this denomination from their being much shorter. Bombay-galleys are like the former, but smaller, and mostly used by corsairs on the coast of Barbary. a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) iii. 92 The ministers of the Reformed faith were banished from France in fifteen days, under pain of the galleys. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xx. 278 King Ferdinand's galleys were spread with rich carpets and awnings of yellow and scarlet. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 138 High on deck of their gilded galleys Our light sailors they scorn below. < as lemmas |
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