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GALLERY

Volume 10 · 95 words · 1842 Edition

in Architecture, a covered place in a house, of much greater length than breadth, and usually in the wings of a building, its use being chiefly to walk in.

in Fortification, a covered walk across the ditch of a town, made of strong beams covered with planks, and loaded with earth. Sometimes it is covered with raw hides, to defend it from the fire of the besieged.

GALLERY of a Mine is a narrow passage or branch of a mine carried on under ground to a chamber in a work designed to be blown up.