galley slice

English

Noun

galley slice (plural galley slices)

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

References
  • 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
  • galley in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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