Middle English Dictionary Entry
galei(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | galei(e n. Also galī(e, galẹ̄, galeiȝe, gallei, gallie, gailaie, gaili. |
| Etymology | OF galee, galïe, guallee. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A seagoing vessel having both sails and oars, a galley; (b) a large rowboat; esp., one of these boats on the Thames.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1296) Newcastle Galley in Archaeol.Ael.4.2162 : In quinque lignis emptis..ad trabas Galee. ]
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)13/185 : Vs he dude lede In to a galeie, wiþ þe se to pleie..Wiþute sail & roþer.
- c1330(?a1300) Rich.(Auch)116/114 : Þe mariners hem gun heyȝe Boþe wiþ schippes & wiþ galeyȝe [vr. galye].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3300 : He was the ferste..Upon the See which fond Galeie And let hem make for the werre.
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)55 : Þe kyng dide make a ryche ship..Þat was a Galy styff and good.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.149 : Dight vs þider ward our busses & galais.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)8/60 : Come þe gaylayes vnto land.
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)71 : The Duk off Bedforde..ffauht with..other vesselles off werre, as hulkes, Barges and Galees.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)66/30 : He assyngned hir anoþer schip, a galey, þat sche xulde seylyn in.
- (1439) RParl.31b : Merchantes of Itaille..brought be their Carraques and Galleys..suche Wynes, Spicere and Merchandises.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)28a : For werrus of þe see þere beþ tweye kindes; on is wiþ swifte galyus, anoþer with schippes of werre.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)116a : A werriour mote lede an oost by watere in smale & light vesselles, as galeies, barbes, fluynus & balyngeres.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)344 : The grete galees of Venees and Florence Be wel ladene wyth thynges of complacence.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)65 : Dromonds dryfes ouer þe depe..Gales & grete schipis full of grym wapens.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2474 : Þe kyng..settis all þe gailis on gledis.
- c1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)335/23 : Come þe galies of Fraunce yn-to Engelonde..and brent & Robbyd and slow moch pepyll.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)208 : Thei had gadered ageyn hym too hundred schippis, and many galeies.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)15 : The seyd towne was beseged..wyth a grete navye of carekys, galeyes, and shyppis off Spayne.
- a1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)1313 : They Reysed a gale with a sayll.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)283 : Wheder he woll be carik or galie marchaunte, he may bothe go thorough the Mare maiour to the Emperour of Trepesonday.
b
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)66b/a : Trabaria: a galey.
- (1440) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)240 : [Lastly, that no person] lene to no Rower of the Galeys, nether to no servaunt of the Galeys, no maner of vitaylle.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3724 : Than sir Gawayn þe gude a galaye he takys And glides vp at a gole with gud men of armes.
- (1443) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA 69.1a : The Galeys that ben in the Water of Thamise.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)48 : In the same yere..were the gallyes in Temmes brent at Gravysende.
2.
Cpds. & combs.: (a) ~ hal(f)peni, a small foreign coin; (b) an oarsman on a galley; also, any member of a galley's crew; (c) ~ nail, ?any kind of nail used in building a galley.
Associated quotations
a
- (1402) RParl.3.498b : La Monoie d'estranges Terres, come Maill' d'Escoce, & autres appellez Galey-Halpenys.
- (1408) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.64 : [No money called] galyhalfpenys [by them brought into the realm].
- (1410) RParl.3.644b : Les Gali-Halpens..pur paiement.
- (1415) Statutes Realm2.191 : Galyhalpens, Seskyns, ou Doydekyns.
- (1423) RParl.4.255a : Le moneie appelle Galihalpenys..soient oustez, & ne courgent en apres pur null paiement deins le Roialme d'Engleterre.
- a1450 Lond.Chron.Hrl.3775 (Hrl 3775)294 : In the same ȝere were all the Galey halpens for don atte a parlement.
- c1470(?1458) Wey Money (Bod 565)2 : At Trent ye schal al haue katerynys and marketis..And a market ys a galy halpeny.
- c1470(?1458) Wey Money (Bod 565)3 : At Venyse..galy halpens..a punde ys xx soldis, that be galey halfpennys.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)313 : In this tyme was it defendid that galey halfpenies schuld not used; for thre of hem were ful scarsly worth a peny.
b
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52232 : Pro vino de Romonye et de Mark..in galeiam de diuersis galeymen per diuersas vices.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)8/51 : Schipmen sone war efter sent..And þe galaies men also.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)8/71 : Þe galay men..Most nedes turn anoþer way; Þai soght þe stremis fer and wide.
- a1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)8/78 : Þe galayes men with hertes kene.
- (1432-3) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)231 : Also paide..to the Meyr for the Galey men..for dyuers questis and portage of iij barells of fals Triacle to the Yildehall.
- c1470(?1458) Wey Prevision (Bod 565)5 : Yf the galymen, other pylgremys, may come ther, to meny wyl tame and drynke therof, and stele yowre watyr.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)73 : Many galy men, with oþer peopulle..made grete werre a yenes the cite.
c
- (1417) *For.Acc.(PRO) 8 Hen.V G/1 [OD col.] : De x ml. dccccij clauis vocatis Galeynaille de diuersis sortibus.