GALLEY-PEPPER. The soot or ashes which accidentally drop into victuals
in cooking.
GALLEY-SLANG. The neological barbarisms foisted into sea-language.
GALLEY-SLAVE. A person condemned to work at the oar on board a galley,
and chained to the deck.
GALLEY-STOKER. A lazy skulker.
GALLEY-TROUGH. _See_ GERLETROCH.
GALLIAS. A heavy, low-built vessel of burden. Not to be confounded with
galley, for even Shakspeare, in the _Taming of the Shrew_, makes Tranio
say:--
"My father hath no less
Than three great argosies; besides two galeasses,
And twelve tight galleys."
GALLIED. The state of a whale when he is seriously alarmed.
GALLIGASKINS. Wide hose or breeches formerly worn by seamen also called
_petticoat-trousers_. P. Penilesse, in his _Supplication to the Divell_,
says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists,"
&c.
GALLING-FIRE. A sustained discharge of cannon, or small arms, which by
its execution greatly annoys the enemy.
GALLIVATS. Armed row-boats of India, smaller than a grab; generally 50
to 70 tons.