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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Galeas \Gal"e*as\, n. See {Galleass}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Galleass \Gal"le*ass\ (?; 135), n. [F. gal[82]asse, gal[82]ace; cf. It. galeazza, Sp. galeaza; LL. galea a galley. See {Galley}.] (Naut.) 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}. [Written variously {galeas}, {gallias}, etc.] Note: [bd]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.[b8] --Motley. | |
