10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GALLEY-WEST»
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GALLEY-WEST. Slushing rill, slow mile from where I frowned for the right to burn
a pair of gloves, you will barb on the last slab of fray, work down, dissolve in your
obstacles. The animals destroy what they find of your luggage of grease painted
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8. knock out render unconscious, Boxing. flatten, prostrate, floor, k.o., knock [s.o.]
galley-west; defeat, trounce, overthrow. 9. knock up a. damage, mar, impair, spoiI.
b. injure, wound, hurt, bruise; beat up, pound, batter, c. SIang. impregnate, get ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Informal English: Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi ...
[Atkinson] gal-boy Gal-boy is in New England used occasionally for the more
familiar tom-boy. [Schele de Vere] A girlish boy. [Bartlett] galley-west > To knock
galley-west, to bring to confusion; to knock out completely, dispose of finally.
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The Chambers Dictionary
[OFr galie, galee, from LL galea] galley-west gal-i-wesl', (US slang) adv into
confusion or unconsciousness. [Eng dialect collywest, perh from
Northamptonshire village Collyweston] g*mamt>tegal-i-am'bik,adjw or of a metre
(^^ — u — o |uu ...
Behind him is the Galley West restaurant, a favored watering hole for both
neighborhood oldsters and youngsters. BlLANKOS Closing. Phil (left) and Mitch
Bilanko began working in their father's Mount Tacoma Grocery as youngsters
delivering ...
Caroline Gallacci, Tacoma Historical Society, 2006
Silks and copra, and hoodoo ships; “Galley West and galley East, Galley North
and galley South, South and Southeast! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! It's a South Sea
windjammer and ready for a fight! Land Ahoy! San Francisco and the Celestial ...
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The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
knock galley-west 255 on a Vermont hill. And herring is a foundation stone of
Maine life and character . . .” (Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Kennebec, Cradle of
Americas, 1937) ketch Catch. “'. . . let Jotham Powell drive me over with the sorrel
in ...
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Concise English Dictionary
galley-west gal-i-west\ (US slang) adv. into confusion or unconsciousness.
galliard gal'yard, adj. (arch.) brisk, lively. — n. a spirited dance for two. in triple
time, common in the 16th and 17th centuries. [O.Fr. gaillard.] gallic. See gall2.
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The Mysterious Stranger
"It's a custom, then?" "Yes. He's got to fight you, whether he wants to or not. But
he wants to. You've knocked his Latin layout galley-west." "Galley west? Je ne —
" "It's just a word, you know. Means you've knocked his props from under him.
Mark Twain, William Merriam Gibson, 1970
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Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, the Mysterious ...
Petersburg schoolyard, the new boy shows no talent at all for sorting out the
human thoughts that underlie the local slang: “you've knocked his latin layout
galley-west.” “Galley west? Je ne—“ “it's just a word, you know. Means you've
knocked ...
Joseph Csicsila, Chad Rohman, 2009
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GALLEY-WEST»
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Interview: Peter Joffre Nye
Such an abrupt change at the Albert Champion Company in Boston no doubt knocked the three Stranahan brothers galley-west. Yet the auto ... «Podium Cafe, May 15»
Stop, Look, Listen! The Shareholder's Right to Adequate Information
... permitting the issuance of stock, in most states, at no particular figure whatsoever,--good old-fashioned balance-sheet practice has been knocked galley-west. «The Atlantic, Oct 10»
