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Gallipot vs Galliot - What's the difference?

gallipot | galliot |

As nouns the difference between gallipot and galliot

is that gallipot is a small glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding ointment and medicine while galliot is (nautical) a light galley.

gallipot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding ointment and medicine

    • Usage notes

    Also used in the phrase (gallipot words), meaning “difficult words”, particularly used presumptuously, to give an appearance of being learned, from the use of such difficult words on apothecary jars. (See Cobbett’s political register, Volume 11'' edited by William Cobbett, 1807, page, and ''Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811) Compare (inkhorn term) (inkhorn).

    See also

    * apothecary's Latin * talk like an apothecary

    galliot

    English

    Alternative forms

    * galiot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A light galley.
  • * 1815 , State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States: 1797 , 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—.
  • * 1984 , Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 , 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 .
  • * 2007 , James C. Boyajian, Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640 , 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.

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