galleass

American  

[gal-ee-as] / ˈgæl iˌæs /

noun

Nautical.

1. a fighting galley, lateen-rigged on three masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

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galleass British  

/ ˈɡælɪˌæs /

noun

1. nautical a three-masted lateen-rigged galley used as a warship in the Mediterranean from the 15th to the 18th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of galleass

1535–45; < Old French galleasse, galiace < Old Italian galeaza (Venice), augmentative of galea galley

Example Sentences

The galleass had gone on the sands, and as the tide ebbed had fallen over on her side.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

The galleass struck a rock off Dunluce and went to pieces, and Don Alonzo and the princely youths who had sailed with him were washed ashore all dead, to find an unmarked grave in Antrim.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

The third, the great galleass "Florencia," went down in Tobermory Bay.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard

The English attacked the stranded galleass in pinnaces and boats, Howard with some of the larger ships standing by "to give the men comfort and countenance."

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard

I was rising seventeen, as I said, and gunner's mate aboard the Anne Gallant, a noble galleass.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert