Galleass

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Nautical A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See galleon, and galley.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A large galley formerly used in the Mediterranean, carrying generally three masts and perhaps twenty guns, and having castellated structures fore and aft, and seats amidships for the rowers, who were galley-slaves, and numbered sometimes more than three hundred, there being as many as thirty-two oars on a side, each worked by several men.
    • Word Usage
    "Compared to the low, crowded galley, the galleass was a roomy and much more seaworthy ship."
    Variant
    galleon    galley    galeas    gallias   
     
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