Definition of "Galway"

Galway

/ˈɡɔːlweɪ/

proper noun
1. A county in the West of the Republic of Ireland.
  Quotations
  I swear I'm gonna put you in a song that I write / About a Galway Girl and a perfect night
  2017, “Galway Girl”, performed by Ed Sheeran
2. A city in County Galway, Ireland.
3. A toponymic surname from Irish.
noun
plural Galways
1. (nautical) Ellipsis of Galway hooker.
  Quotations
  In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]
  1884, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races, page 161