galliot

British  

/ ˈɡælɪət /

noun

1. a variant spelling of galiot

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Example Sentences

The first boat which landed at Plymouth brought in 21; the Gertruida, a Dutch galliot, picked up a boat containing 16 on Sunday night, and another containing 8 on the following morning.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick

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 captain-general went to Macan later in his galliot, taking three fathers with him.

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

This vessel was a small Dutch galliot, and had a cargo of sugar from Amsterdam, consigned to Leghorn; and was, therefore, desirous of landing at Gibraltar, it being on her course.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick

We chased, and overhauled soon afterward a Dutch galliot, and later in the day, a Spanish bark.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael