Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Nautical A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical, historical A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- French galeasse, from Old French, from Old Italian galeaza, augmentative of galea, galley, from Old Provençal or Catalan; see galley. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Compared to the low, crowded galley, the galleass was a roomy and much more seaworthy ship.”
“The galleass was the most splendid vessel of her kind afloat, Don Hugo one of the greatest of Spanish grandees.”
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
“In September a sirocco blew out of Africa, and a Venetian galleass made ready to run for the Adriatic.”
“It seemed a somewhat pointless exercise, since the galleass had ceased being a water-capable means of transport quite some time ago.”
“Through the expanded perception of her dream-sense, Taen recognized the triple ring of force which once shot blazing bands of light around the wings of the stormfalcon she had released from the galleass Crow.”
“The helmsman drowsed against the binnacle with the wheel clamped in the friction brake as the galleass drifted under the limp billows of her staysails.”
“Skane's Edge Of the seven sailhands who manned the pinnace from the foun'dering of the galleass Crow only four reached the beaches of Skane's Edge alive.”
“Mired by the broad yards of her staysails, the galleass began to drink the sea.”
“He believed his sister had died, drowned without mercy by Anskiere's hand during the foundering of the galleass Crow.”
“The abandoned galleass settled slowly to her deep water grave.”
Lists
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Gene Wolfe
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In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Logolepsy
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
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slumry You are right, this one is more fun as an ink blot test!
Gotta get my galleass moving! Jul 20, 2007
reesetee From the dictionary: A fighting galley, lateen-rigged on three masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Also spelled galliass.
But it really doesn't matter what it means--this is just a damn funny word. :-)
Jul 20, 2007