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  • noun Plural form of galliot.

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Examples

  • Miramichi — green high-sterned Dutch galliots — American ships with long black hulls and tall raking masts — and those far-famed “Black Ball” clippers, the _Marco Polo_ and the _Champion of the Seas_, — in short, the ships of all nations, with their marked and distinguishing peculiarities.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Moreover we were afraid of meeting on that course one of the galliots that usually come with goods from Tetuan; although each of us for himself and all of us together felt confident that, if we were to meet a merchant galliot, so that it were not a cruiser, not only should we not be lost, but that we should take a vessel in which we could more safely accomplish our voyage.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know; — square-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots, and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • I wonder if it's someone off one of those galliots.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • 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.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • Several smacks had run in too, and there were two galliots farther up our channel, but we couldn't make out if the Kormoran was one.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • She's something like those galliots anchored near us now.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • Of the three galliots out at anchor in the channel yesterday, only one is left ...

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • We found her wedged among a stack of galliots, and her skipper sitting primly below before a blazing stove, reading his Bible through spectacles.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

  • There is still, however, a little trade with the mainland in galliots and lighters, a few of which come from the "siels" on the mainland.

    The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

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