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• a variation of galiot.

galliot

British  

/ ˈɡælɪət /

noun

1. a variant spelling of galiot

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I saw the barge—a moving coffin, what?—gliding down stream towed by the galliot and escorted by a small boat.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The galliot carried two masts, the after one only being set up.

From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

In a week, I was on board a Dutch galliot, bound to Havana; but I soon perceived that I was again under the command of two captains—male and female.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz

Unlike the latter, which had two and often three masts, the galliot had only one, and was smaller in size.

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

In the year 598, Don Luis Das Mariñas left for the expedition to Camboxa with two ships and one galliot, and two hundred Spaniards.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander