ˈgalley-man
[f. galley n. + man n.]
1. One who rows in a galley.
| 1352 Minot Poems (Hall) iii. 57 Þe galay men held vp þaire handes. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 220 The galayis and the galay-men did boyth eschape. 1589 Cogan Haven Health ii. (1636) 22 The Gally-man..the Carier, ease the tediousnesse of their labour..with singing and whistling. 1672 Leycester Antiq. Chesh. ii. ii. 115 There were fifty skilful Oars or Galleymen. 1836–48 B. D. Walsh Aristoph. 259 note, The Athenian Galley-men taking cushions to sit upon. a 1845 Hood She is far from Land 20 Pirates, and Sallee-men, Algerine galleymen. |
† 2. (See quots.) Obs.
| c 1550 Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893) 127 These gally men, mercers, fustian sellers, grocers, poticaries, that selles vs anie ware made beyond the sea. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Galley-men, certain Genoese Merchants formerly so call'd, because they usually arriv'd in Galleys, landed their Goods at a Place in Thames-street, nam'd Galley-key, and traded with their own small Silver Coin call'd Galley-half-pence. |