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gallature | gallaudet | gallberry | gallbladder | galleïn | galleass | galled | gallegan | gallego | galleon | galleot

galleass

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Noun
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gal=le=ass

CIDE DICTIONARY

galleassn. [F. galéasse, galéace; cf. It. galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See Galley.].
     A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.  [1913 Webster]
    " “The galleasses . . . were a third larger than the ordinary galley, and rowed each by three hundred galley slaves. They consisted of an enormous towering structure at the stern, a castellated structure almost equally massive in front, with seats for the rowers amidships.”"  Motley.

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