Definitions for the word "gallery" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a.
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
A working drift or level.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 room or building for showing works of art. 2 balcony, esp. In a church, hall, etc. (minstrels'' gallery). 3 highest balcony in a theatre. 4 a covered walk partly open at the side; colonnade. B narrow passage in the thickness of a wall or on corbels, open towards the interior of the building. 5 long narrow room or passage (shooting-gallery). 6 horizontal underground passage in a mine etc. 7 group of spectators at a golf-match etc. play to the gallery seek to win approval by appealing to popular taste. [french galerie]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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