Galliot vs Galley - What's the difference?
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(nautical) A light galley.
* 1815 , State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States: 1797 ,
* 1984 , Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 ,
* 2007 , James C. Boyajian, Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640 ,
(nautical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
(British) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
(printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
(printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
Galley is a derived term of galliot.
In nautical terms the difference between galliot and galley
is that galliot is a light galley while galley is the cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.galliot
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Alternative forms
* galiotNoun
(en noun)page 511,
- Having seen the minutes of the proceedings on the capture of the galliot the Betsy of Washington, North Carolina, captain Reynold Brown, taken the 5th of this month by the French privateer le Poisson Volant (Flying Fish) captain Thomas de Haunot—.
page 1059,
- The Holy See received 19 galleys and two galliots', Spain was given 58 galleys and six '''galliots''', while the Venetian share was 39 galleys and four ' galliots .
page 159,
- The galliots averaged about three hundred tons, and their cargo of Japanese silver must have equaled that carried by the Santa Catarina —that is, in excess of 1 million cruzados' worth.