galley slave
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Noun
galley slave (plural galley slaves)
- (historical, nautical) A slave who rows in a galley (type of ship).
- 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXII, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha In Four Vols, volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co. , →OCLC, part I, page 346:
- "That is a chain of galley slaves, on the way to the galleys by force of the king's orders." "How by force?" asked Don Quixote; "is it possible that the king uses force against anyone?" "I do not say that," answered Sancho, "but that these are people condemned for their crimes to serve by force in the king's galleys."
Translations
slave in a galley
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