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Gallies

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  1. 1
    plural of galley form-of, obsolete, plural

    "In fine, we got the better, took a Four-bank’d Galley, and ſunk another, after having kill’d all the Men on board: We made a great Slaughter likewiſe amongſt the Soldiers that were in the other Gallies, and had not Night protected ’em, ſhould have taken all their Fleet."

  2. 2
    plural of gally (archaic form of galley) form-of, plural

    "In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival."

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