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US
/ˈɡæɫiən/
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[ UK /ɡˈælɪən/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈælɪən/ ]
NOUN
- a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries
How To Use galleon In A Sentence
- The designers designed a terrific pirate galleon and a thrilling Lost Boys' hideout.
- The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as The Stamps of Canada
- So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
- Sarah -' She came down the hallway, a galleon of a woman beside the very slim Gail Lee. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- If diving for wrecks turns you on, Bermuda is a veritable treasure trove of maritime disaster, with a wreck collection including 16th century Spanish galleons, warships and a luxury transatlantic liner.
- Then a tram to work; he enjoyed a tram ride, especially if he went on the top to sit on the prow as on a galleon. COFFIN ON THE WATER
- High above, sheets of material hang like sails on a becalmed Spanish galleon.
- A galleon with its upper decks razed, perhaps, in an effort to make it lighter, and furthermore cursed with an eccentric sailmaker.
- Ships of War, "round" and "long"; trireme; penteconter; liburna; galley; dromon; galleas; junk; Viking craft; galleon; two and three-deckers; steam; submarine; destroyer; battle cruiser; dreadnought A History of Sea Power
- The last time I visited Strathbeg, I counted eighty elegant swans, floating galleon-like on calm waters.