galley slice

English

Noun

galley slice (plural galley slices)

(printing, obsolete) A sliding false bottom to a large galley.

References

Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Galley slice”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
“galley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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