Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See galiot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) See galiot.

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  • noun nautical Alternative form of galliot.

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Examples

  • The boats were called galleys, galleots, brigantines ( "_galeotas ligeras o vergãtines_," or _frigatas_), &c., according to their size: a galleot is a small galley, while a brigantine may be called a quarter galley.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • Bujēya for the moment escaped, but the Corsairs enjoyed some little consolation in the capture of a rich Genoese galleot which they met on its voyage to the Lomellini's mart at Tabarka.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • _Allahu Akbar_, "God is Most Great," as the sheep is slaughtered over the vessel's prow -- a symbol, they said, of the Christian blood to be shed -- and the galleot glides into the water prepared for her career of devastation: built by Christians and manned by Christians, commanded probably by a quondam Christian, she sallies forth to prey upon

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • It was no light adventure for a galleot of eighteen banks of oars to board a royal galley of perhaps twice her size, and with no one could tell how many armed men inside her.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • At last he contrived to purchase and man a galleot, with which he cruised the waters of the Levant, where his intimate acquaintance with all the coasts and islands enabled him to seize and dispose of many prizes.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • The Senate of Genoa was highly incensed at the loss of the galleot, and Andrea Doria, soon to be known as the greatest Christian admiral of his time, was despatched with twelve galleys to exact reparation.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • These were often speculative shopkeepers, who invested in a part share of a galleot on the chance of a prize, and who often discovered that ruin lay in so hazardous a lottery.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • Never before had a galley-royal struck her colours to a mere galleot.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • When his patron was engaged at the siege of Malta in 1565, young Murād gave him the slip, and went on a private cruise of his own, in which he contrived to split his galleot upon a rock.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • Then the _armadores_, or owners of the new galleot, as soon as it is finished, come down with presents of money and clothes, and hang them upon the mast and rigging, to the value of two hundred or three hundred ducats, to be divided among their slaves, whose only pay till that day has been the daily loaves.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

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