单词 | galley slave |
释义 | galley slaven. 1. One who is condemned to work at the oar in a galley. Often figurative as a type of painful slavery. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1567 |
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