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Galley slave, a person condemned, often as a
punishment for crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To
toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley
slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a
large galley. Knight.

Gal"ley-bird` (?), n. [Etymol.
uncertain.] (Zoöl.) The European green woodpecker;
also, the spotted woodpecker. [Prov. Eng.]

Gal"ley-worm` (?), n. [Prob. so called
because the numerous legs along the sides move rhythmically like the
oars of a galley.] (Zoöl.) A chilognath myriapod of
the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs
along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See
Chilognatha.

Gall"fly` (?), n.; pl.
Gallflies (&?;). (Zoöl.) An insect
that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small
hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See
Illust.


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