单词 | galliass |
释义 | galliassgalleassn. Obsolete exc. Historical. A heavy, low-built vessel, larger than a galley, impelled both by sail and oars, chiefly employed in war. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > war galley bastard1511 galley1513 galliass1544 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > galley > large galliass1544 galiegross1652 1544 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 504 Foure hundred galleys, foystes, and galyasses. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 33 This gaye galliasse beand in gude ordour. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 374. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 360/1 A Galleass is built..low and snug..and carries the Force of a Ship..the thing that gives her Advantage in Fight, is her Oars. 1677 F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. 79 The sinking the great Galeas of the Saracens. 1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 246 The Crew should be under some Covert, as they are in a Galeass. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Quarter The quarter of a first-rate galley, otherwise called a galleasse. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xxi. 264 The principal galeass, commanded by Moncada..was driven ashore near Calais. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 248 A French galliass and galleon..attempted to cut out two merchantmen. 1888 Cassell's Mag. Aug. 14 559 Galleon and caracke and galleasse Crashed down the stream of flight. CompoundsΚΠ 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2v Farre more boystrous and cumbersome, than a payre of Swissers omnipotent galeaze breeches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1544 |
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