galleon

[gal-ee-uh n, gal-yuh n]

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a large sailing vessel of the 15th to the 17th centuries used as a fighting or merchant ship, square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and generally lateen-rigged on one or two after masts.

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Origin of galleon

1520–30; < Spanish galeón, augmentative of galea galley

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Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group, pursued a Wall Street lifestyle.
Charles Gasparino Details Insider-Trading Investigations in New Book, ‘Circle of Friends’|William O’Connor|July 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Yet, as the Gupta defense contended, Gupta ended up losing $10 million with Galleon.
Rajat Gupta Was Found Guilty of Insider Trading in Less Than a Day|Allan Dodds Frank|June 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
With Galleon buying millions of shares, the price of Hilton stock moved up that day much more than it would have otherwise.
Why Insider Trading Should Be Legalized|James Altucher|June 3, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Not long after that call, Galleon bought more than 80,000 shares of Goldman Sachs.
Rajat Gupta and Goldman's Insider Trading Bombshell|Allan Dodds Frank|March 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST

“Less than a minute after the call began,” says the SEC, Galleon bought 40,000 more Goldman shares.
Rajat Gupta and Goldman's Insider Trading Bombshell|Allan Dodds Frank|March 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The galleon being disposed of, Drake and his men pulled ashore to look at the town.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century|James Anthony Froude
Had he not been in the Barbados in such a year, and had he not there captured the galleon Maria de las Dolores?
The Sea-Hawk|Raphael Sabatini
Altogether I know in a very short time they lost one hundred and twenty men—while I had not lost one on board the galleon.
Hurricane Hurry|W.H.G. Kingston
Accordingly, we set sail on the 15th of May, the general being now on board the galleon, his own ship.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X|Robert Kerr
Some skulkers from the cannon-balls of the pirates might have sought safety in the hold of the galleon, and he would find them.
The Real America in Romance, Volume 6;|John R. Musick

British Dictionary definitions for galleon

galleon

noun

nautical a large sailing ship having three or more masts, lateen-rigged on the after masts and square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast, used as a warship or trader from the 15th to the 18th centuries

Word Origin for galleon

C16: from Spanish galeón, from French galion, from Old French galie galley

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Word Origin and History for galleon

galleon

large ship, 1520s, from Old French galion "little ship" (13c.), from Spanish galeón "galleon, armed merchant ship," from Byzantine Greek galea "galley" (see galley) + augmentative suffix -on. In English use, especially of Spanish ships involved in the American trade.

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