Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small sea-going war-vessel in use in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and supposed to have been a kind of sloop without forecastle.

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Examples

  • I ask little, dear lord - a galley, a balinger, even a pinnace, so that I may only be there. "

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • I ask little, dear lord -- a galley, a balinger, even a pinnace, so that I may only be there. "

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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