Other forms: galleys
A galley is the kitchen of a ship. The ship's galley, work in the galley, a galley stove.
Everything in one is designed against motion — fiddles on the stove, latches on every locker — because a pan sliding in a sea is a serious injury. A galley is also an ancient oared warship, and a galley kitchen at home is a narrow one with counters facing each other.
1noungalleyThe kitchen of a ship.
“The sailors took turns cooking meals in the galley below deck.”
galley is a kitchen.
Old French galee comes through Medieval Greek from a word of uncertain origin. The kitchen sense came from the oared ship.
Medieval Greek
γάλεα
Latin
galea
Old French
galee
Middle English
galeie
English, today
galley
Built from
From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Medieval Greek γάλεα. From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Medieval Greek γάλεα of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek γαλέη, a kind of a small fish, from γαλεός (“dog-fish or small shark”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA