Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large boat used in the far East, rarely exceeding 70 tons in burden, two-masted, and commonly carrying small swivel-guns. The Malay pirates employ these boats on account of their swiftness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A small armed
vessel , withsails andoars , used on theMalabar coast.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Babu one day remarked with envy that he would soon be deemed worthy of promotion to Angria's own gallivat, whose crew consisted of picked men of all nationalities.
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The motion of the gallivat at once ceased, and, the grab slowly creeping up to her, Desmond had to put his helm hard up to avoid a collision.
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Could he stow himself on board a grab or gallivat, and try to swim ashore when near some friendly port?
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Meanwhile Desmond himself, with the rest of the men, set about preparing the gallivat in which he was about to make his next move.
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The gallivat, at any rate, appeared not to have suffered.
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What if he could seize a grab or gallivat in the harbor?
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The willing rowers on their benches could not know how slowly the vessel was moving, but it was painfully clear to Desmond at the helm; relative to the lights on shore the gallivat seemed scarcely to move at all.
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Every other man was straining at his oar in the gallivat.
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Miserable as he was, he would not have been a boy if he had not been interested in his novel surroundings; and no intelligent boy could have failed to take an interest in the construction of a gallivat.
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He dared not order the men in the gallivat to cease rowing; he dared not leave the helm of the grab; he could but wait and hold his post.
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