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ˈgalley-slave
[f. galley n. + slave n.]
1. One who is condemned to work at the oar in a galley. Often fig. as a type of painful slavery.
1567Turberv. All Things haue release, etc. 21 A gally-slave I seeme vnto my selfe to bee. 1626Bacon Sylva §733 Gally Slaues, notwithstanding their Misery otherwise, are commonly Fat and Fleshy. 1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 38 He is worse than a Gally-slave to his own lusts. 1701Lond Gaz. No. 3715/1 The Galley-Slaves..had agreed together to throw their Officers and the Soldiers over-board. 1780Cowper Table T. 327 Worse than the deeds of galley-slaves broke loose. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xxxii, They..perceived the house surrounded by the galley-slaves. 1875Helps Ess., Domestic Rule 39 We should not attempt to tie them up to their duties, like galley-slaves to their labour.
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1683Moxon Mech. Exerc. II. 362 The Compositers are Jocosely call'd Galley Slaves; Because allusively they are as it were bound to their Gallies. |