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galleon
  • n  a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries
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galleria mellonella
  • n  moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs
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gallery
  • n  spectators at a golf or tennis match
  • n  a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
  • n  a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
  • n  a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
    shooting gallery
  • n  a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
  • n  narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
  • n  a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
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galley
  • n  a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading
  • n  (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars
  • n  the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner
  • n  the area for food preparation on a ship
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galley proof
  • n  a proof taken before the type is broken up to print pages
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galley slave
  • n  a slave condemned to row in a galley
  • n  a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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gallfly
  • n  small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants
  • n  fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants
  • n  any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed
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gallia
  • n  an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
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gallic acid
  • n  a colorless crystalline acid obtained from tannin
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