eck.

GALLEY-STOKER. A lazy skulker.

GALLEY-TROUGH. _See_ GERLETROCH.

GALLIAS. A heavy, low-built vessel of burden. Not to be confounded with
galley, for even Shakspeare, in the _Taming of the Shrew_, makes Tranio
say:--

"My father hath no less
Than three great argosies; besides two galeasses,
And twelve tight galleys."

GALLIED. The state of a whale when he is seriously alarmed.

GALLIGASKINS. Wide hose or breeches formerly worn by seamen also called
_petticoat-trousers_. P. Penilesse, in his _Supplication to the Divell_,
says: "Some gally gascoynes or shipman's hose, like the Anabaptists,"
&c.

GALLING-FIRE. A sustained discharge of cannon, or small arms, which by
its execution greatly annoys the enemy.

GALLIVATS. Armed row-boats of India, smaller than a grab; generally 50
to 70 tons.

GALLOON. Gold lace. [Fr. _galon_; Sp. _galon_.]

GALLOPER. A small gun used by the Indians, easily drawn by one horse.

GALLOW-GLASSES. Formerly a heavy-armed body of foot; more recently
applied to Irish infantry soldiers.

GALLOWS. The cross-pieces on the small bitts at the main and fore
hatchways in flush-decked vessels, for stowing away the booms and spars
over the boats; also termed _gallowses_, _gallows-tops_,
_gallows-bitts_, and _gallows-stanchions_. The word is used colloquially
for archness, as well as for notoriously bad characters.

GALLS. Veins of land through which the water oozes.

GALL-WIND. _See_ WIND-GALL.

GALLY-GUN. A kind of culverin.

GALOOT. An awkward soldier, from the Russian _golut_, or slave. A
soubriquet for the young or "green" marine.

GALORE. Plenty, abundance.

GAMBISON. A quilted doublet formerly worn under armour, to prevent its
chafing.

GAME-LEG. A lame limb, but not so bad as to unfit for duty.

GAMMON, TO. To pass the lashings of the bowsprit.

GAMMONING. Seven or eight turns of a rope-lashing passed alternately
over the bowsprit and through a large hole in the cut-water, the better
to support the stays of the fore-mast; after all the turns are drawn as
firm as possible, the two opposite are braced together under the
bowsprit by a frapping. Gammoning lashing, fashion, &c., has a peculiar
seamanlike meaning. The gammoning turns are passed from the standing
part or bolt forward, over the bowsprit, aft through the knee forward,
making a cross lashing. It was the essence of a seaman's ability, and
only forecastle men, under the boatswain, executed it