Galley-Slave is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 301 anagrams from letters in galley-slave (-aaeeglllsvy).
First recorded in 1560-70
A galley slave, for instance, has the privilege of stealing with impunity.
With brutal insult, they chained him to the oar as a galley slave.
"I should look well as a galley slave," remarked Jack, laughing.
A galley slave carried the noble lady on his shoulders as he swam to shore.
By these means, and by working like a galley slave, he dragged his expenditure down almost to a level with his income.
The editor of a daily paper may be aptly compared to a galley slave.
He had promised never to sacrifice his brother; the promise held him like the fetters of a galley slave.
But with all its dangers it is likely to last as long as that of a galley slave.
When the great reformer was a galley slave they gave him the image to worship. '
Intensely ambitious, she worked like a galley slave and soon mastered French so that she wrote it with ease and vigor.
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