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Definition of galliot in English: galliot(also galiot) noun ˈɡalɪət historical 1A single-masted Dutch cargo boat or fishing vessel. Example sentencesExamples - With the help of Spanish merchants, the galiot had developed from galley-type vessels which were modified and adapted to suit the Dutch tidelands: The body plan of the Furttenbach galley of 1571 exhibits a relatively flat bottom throughout some two thirds of its length, making it highly suitable for the conditions of the Zuidersee mud-flats.
- These small galliots 15 to 20 m in length served largely for transporting merchandise along the coast.
- This continued its course west, directly parallel to the island, and in it, at a distance of half a mile from us, three galliots lay at anchor.
- Clumsy as were their galliots, they were among the first to brave the mysterious terrors of unknown seas and oceans.
- Down-stream slowly drifted a long string of galiots piled with crimson cheeses.
- 1.1 A small, fast galley used in the Mediterranean.
Example sentencesExamples - The Turks numbered some 274 galleys and galliots with altogether 88,000 men.
- September 1759: A small Prussian flotilla of four galiots, four galleys, and four barques is totally destroyed by a larger Swedish fleet.
- Known for their speed and sailing ability, galiots could easily make the 80 km trip to or from Saldanha to the Cape in a day's sailing, although records indicate that most skippers chose to break the voyage by overnighting on Dassen Island.
- From here Nelson would have seen a great variety of coasting vessels - galliots, busses, hoys, brigantines, sloops, wherries, bilanders, luggers, cutters, snows - carrying a flow of goods.
- Military officers were in charge of the battle and commanded both soldiers and gunmen - ‘bombardieri’, and sopracomito, while officers ran the boat with sailors and rowers - galliots.
- The Algerian Admiral Ochiali outmanoeuvring the Genoese Admiral Doria, swept in from seaward with his fleet of sixty galleys and thirty galliots.
- Fleet B consisted of around 216 galleys, 56 galliots, and other smaller vessels.
- Because the crews of their twin galliots were comprised of free men, including oarsmen, rather than slaves, there was a concomitant need for more rest and relaxation.
- As news of the siege filtered through to the Portuguese administration in Goa late in 1696, a fleet consisting of two frigates and two galliots was sent to the relief of Fort Jesus.
- He therefore sent Dom Gonçalo da Silveyra with 200 veteran Portuguese soldiers on six galliots with a convoy of merchant vessels from Muscat to Bassorah in January 1624.
Origin Middle English: from Old French galiote or Dutch galjoot, from a diminutive of medieval Latin galea 'galley'. Definition of galliot in US English: galliotnoun historical 1A single-masted Dutch cargo boat or fishing vessel. Example sentencesExamples - These small galliots 15 to 20 m in length served largely for transporting merchandise along the coast.
- Down-stream slowly drifted a long string of galiots piled with crimson cheeses.
- With the help of Spanish merchants, the galiot had developed from galley-type vessels which were modified and adapted to suit the Dutch tidelands: The body plan of the Furttenbach galley of 1571 exhibits a relatively flat bottom throughout some two thirds of its length, making it highly suitable for the conditions of the Zuidersee mud-flats.
- Clumsy as were their galliots, they were among the first to brave the mysterious terrors of unknown seas and oceans.
- This continued its course west, directly parallel to the island, and in it, at a distance of half a mile from us, three galliots lay at anchor.
- 1.1 A small fast galley, especially in the Mediterranean.
Example sentencesExamples - The Turks numbered some 274 galleys and galliots with altogether 88,000 men.
- September 1759: A small Prussian flotilla of four galiots, four galleys, and four barques is totally destroyed by a larger Swedish fleet.
- The Algerian Admiral Ochiali outmanoeuvring the Genoese Admiral Doria, swept in from seaward with his fleet of sixty galleys and thirty galliots.
- From here Nelson would have seen a great variety of coasting vessels - galliots, busses, hoys, brigantines, sloops, wherries, bilanders, luggers, cutters, snows - carrying a flow of goods.
- As news of the siege filtered through to the Portuguese administration in Goa late in 1696, a fleet consisting of two frigates and two galliots was sent to the relief of Fort Jesus.
- Fleet B consisted of around 216 galleys, 56 galliots, and other smaller vessels.
- Known for their speed and sailing ability, galiots could easily make the 80 km trip to or from Saldanha to the Cape in a day's sailing, although records indicate that most skippers chose to break the voyage by overnighting on Dassen Island.
- He therefore sent Dom Gonçalo da Silveyra with 200 veteran Portuguese soldiers on six galliots with a convoy of merchant vessels from Muscat to Bassorah in January 1624.
- Because the crews of their twin galliots were comprised of free men, including oarsmen, rather than slaves, there was a concomitant need for more rest and relaxation.
- Military officers were in charge of the battle and commanded both soldiers and gunmen - ‘bombardieri’, and sopracomito, while officers ran the boat with sailors and rowers - galliots.
Origin Middle English: from Old French galiote or Dutch galjoot, from a diminutive of medieval Latin galea ‘galley’. |