Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Galley

(g hard). A printer's frame into which type from the stick (q.v.) is emptied. In the galley the type appears only in columns; it is subsequently divided into pages, and transferred to the “chase” (q.v.). (French, galée.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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