galley slice

galley slice (plural galley slices)

1. (printing, obsolete) A sliding false bottom to a large galley.

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Galley slice”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “galley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.