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GALLEY SLAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does galley slave mean? 

GALLEY SLAVE (noun)
  The noun GALLEY SLAVE has 2 senses:

1. a slave condemned to row in a galleyplay

2. a laborer who is obliged to do menial workplay

  Familiarity information: GALLEY SLAVE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GALLEY SLAVE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A slave condemned to row in a galley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("galley slave" is a kind of...):

slave (a person who is owned by someone)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

drudge; galley slave; navvy; peon

Hypernyms ("galley slave" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)


 Context examples 


Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gallantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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