gallies

noun

1. (form-of, obsolete, plural)plural of galley

   “In fine, we got the better, took a Four-bank’d Galley, and ſunk another, after having kill’d all the Men on board: We made a great Slaughter likewiſe amongſt the Soldiers that were in the other Gallies, and had not Night protected ’em, ſhould have taken all their Fleet.”

   “It is many years ſince Charles the firſt Roman emperor, of famous memory, aſſaulted that city, where he received the loſs of many of his gallies, and his army diſſipated; and it is now the 27th of March 1638, when by a diver was diſcovered much of the ruins of that armada, and weighed by the Algiers, the whole ſide of a galley intire, and the timber as new, beſides three pieces of braſs ordnance, and five pieces of plate; […]”

2. (form-of, plural)plural of gally (archaic form of galley)

   “In the Year 1746, an Indian of Buenos Ayres having been condemned to the Gallies at Cadiz, proposed to the Governor to purchase his Liberty by exposing his Life at a public Festival.”