Definitions for galley-slave

galley-slave galley slave

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).

Definitions for galley-slave

noun

  1. a person condemned to work at an oar on a galley.
  2. a drudge.

Origin of galley-slave

First recorded in 1560-70

Examples for galley-slave

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.

Word Value for galley-slave
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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