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单词 galley slave
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galley slaven.

Etymology: < galley n. + slave n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgalley-slave.
1. One who is condemned to work at the oar in a galley. Often figurative as a type of painful slavery.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > slave with specific duties
galley slave1567
hierodule1835
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on galley > slave
forsary1546
galley slave1567
row-slave1578
'sforzato1607
mesonaut1623
forsado1625
galleriana1640
galley-bird1655
1567 G. Turberville All Things haue Release 21 A gally-slave I seeme vnto my selfe to bee.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §733 Gally Slaues, notwithstanding their Misery otherwise, are commonly Fat and Fleshy.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 38 He is worse than a Gally-slave to his own lusts.
1701 London Gaz. No. 3715/1 The Galley-Slaves..had agreed together to throw their Officers and the Soldiers over-board.
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 327 Worse than the deeds of galley-slaves broke loose.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. vi. 109 They..perceived the house surrounded by the galley-slaves.
1875 A. Helps Domest. Rule in Ess. 39 We should not attempt to tie them up to their duties, like galley-slaves to their labour.
2. Printing. (See quot. 1683) Obsolete.
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor
compositor1569
composer1634
setter1648
galley slave1683
typo1816
type-sticker1842
typist1843
setter-up1853
case man1855
typesetter1867
comp1870
compositress1885
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 362 The Compositers are Jocosely call'd Galley Slaves: Because allusively they are as it were bound to their Gallies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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