What's the difference between galley and quinquereme?

Galley


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
  • (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
  • (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
  • (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  • (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  • (n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
  • (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
  • (n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
  • (n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Grant finished the manuscript in July 1885, it was rushed into galley proof.
  • (2) Don't just rely on Twitter or Facebook Ben Galley became a self-published author at 22 and is currently making a modest living selling his fantasy ebooks and offering "Shelf Help" , a consultancy for other aspiring authors (sessions via Skype, phone or face to face from £50 to £199).
  • (3) It gets even skinnier at the back, where the galley kitchen is a mere 62 inches, or 5ft 2 across, but despite its slender proportions, the 466sq ft property in Denmark Hill was put on the market for £450,000.
  • (4) Galley, who stood as a Tory candidate for Sunderland council in 2004, has not been charged, but he has been suspended from his Home Office job while the investigation carries on.
  • (5) The major art galley in central San Francisco that has shown Ferlinghetti's work for two decades is closing because it can't afford the new rent.
  • (6) Galley, who is now in hiding from journalists, was arrested on November 19.
  • (7) Profile: Christopher Galley Christopher Galley, 26, the junior Home Office civil servant at the centre of the Damian Green affair, stood as a Conservative council candidate in 2004 and unsuccessfully applied for a job with the party's immigration spokesman, it emerged.
  • (8) Spread may have been facilitated by the limited availability of toilet facilities for the galley crew.
  • (9) A junior Home Office official, Christopher Galley, was arrested on November 18 in relation to the same alleged offences as Green, and he was released on bail.
  • (10) Open daily 11.30am-10pm The Cuban Sandwich Factory Facebook Twitter Pinterest This Cuban-owned joint is alive with Latin music and rapid-fire Spanish instructions issuing from its small galley kitchen, and its food (mainly pressed, toasted Cuban sandwiches) is equally vibrant.
  • (11) Photograph: PR The forward galley’s catering facilities have wine glasses for an in-flight tipple while the bathroom includes a shower and a vacuum lavatory.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Gulfstream jet’s galley.
  • (13) The findings so far from Galley's ongoing research into gender biases in social work are far from simple.
  • (14) There's a welcome revival happening on the indie scene with literary platforms such as Brixton Bookjam , Black Book Swap and Words of Colour , as well as publishing houses And Other Stories, Galley Beggar Press, Jacaranda Books, and Unbound, whose author Paul Kingsnorth receives a Booker nod for The Wake .
  • (15) The premier, said Khodorkovsky, was helmsman of a galley which "sails right over people's destinies" and "over which, more and more, the citizens of Russia seem to see a black pirate flag flying".
  • (16) I always make sure I can see the Twitter screen on my laptop when I am writing,” self-publishing author Ben Galley declares, just one of an army of unpaid e-authors who rise at dawn to promote themselves on social media before their paid job.
  • (17) He said yesterday: "The two men I shared a cabin with already knew, the whole galley knew.
  • (18) Unlike many authors, Galley stays online even when he is writing.
  • (19) David Galley and Margarete Parrish will be discussing some of the implications for academics and social work practitioners during their presentation at the Joint Social Work and Social Education conference .
  • (20) From 17 or 18, to 20 I was also the cook on the boat, making meals on the stove in a little galley – lasagnes, roasts and spaghetti bolognese.

Quinquereme


Definition:

  • (n.) A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He wondered if we could earn our passage out to the Antipodes as oarsmen on a quinquereme.

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