galleys
Meaning
of Galley
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.
According to extant documents the Melek-Chesme river (small and shallow nowadays) was navigable in Bosporan times, and sea galleys were able to enter the river.
All Roma (Gitano, Gypsy) males between the ages of 18 and 26 were forced to serve in galleys – which was equivalent to a death sentence – but the majority managed to hide and avoid arrest.
Antony's personal flag ship, like those of his admirals, was a Deceres (ten bank rowing galleys).
Antony's fleet numbered 500, of which 230 were large war galleys with towers full of armed men.
By plotting the fleets and calculating the conjectured final manoeuvres of the Mary Rose, Fontana reached the conclusion that the ship had been hit low in the hull by the galleys and was destabilised after taking in water.