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galiot
Part of speech: NounA ship moved by both sails and oars; a small Dutch vessel; also galliot.
Usage examples "galiot":- A week later the Captain Grone- that is, the galiot- hoisted the Dutch flag as the Johanna Maria had done, and started after her with other hundreds on her own deck, I know not how many, but making eleven hundred in the two, and including, for one, young Wagner. - "Strange True Stories of Louisiana", George Washington Cable.
- Galiot, or Galliot, a Dutch vessel carrying a main- mast and a mizzen- mast. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
- Here, in the wreck of an old galiot, he hid every article dry and secure; kegs of liquors and wine, shawls and blankets, pieces of silk, gunpowder, beautiful pipes, bars of silver and copper, and a whole bag of gold. - "Tales of the Chesapeake", George Alfred Townsend.