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galley-devil
Slang
n.
a cook's helper on a whaler.
1909
 
. . . every one on board a whaler from captain to galley-devil works on a lay. The captain gets one-twelfth of the take, the first mate one twenty-second, the second mate one-thirtieth. . . .