Definitions for galley slave

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. galley slave(noun)

    a slave condemned to row in a galley

  2. drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave(noun)

    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

Wiktionary

  1. galley slave(Noun)

    A slave who rows in a galley.


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