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galley slave

noun
- 1. a person condemned to man the oars in a galley. historical
- ▪ a person who works very hard, typically performing menial or thankless tasks: historical "not so long ago, doctoral students were viewed as the galley slaves of the scientific world"
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Galley slave
Person enslaved or sentenced to row in a galley
A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar, or a kind of human chattel, sometimes a prisoner of war, assigned to the duty of rowing. Wikipedia
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