Galleon

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Galleon \Gal"le*on\, n. [Sp. galeon, cf. F. galion; fr. LL.
     galeo, galio. See {Galley}.] (Naut.)
     A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often
     having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The
     term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large
     sailing vessel.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy
           vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and
           built up at stem and stern, like castles. --Motley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  galleon
       n : 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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "galleon":
     bark, bawley, bilander, brig, brigantine, bully, buss, caravel,
     cat, catamaran, clipper, corsair, corvette, cutter, dandy, dhow,
     dromond, fishing smack, flattie, four-masted bark, four-master,
     frigate, galiot, galleass, hooker, hoy, ice yacht, junk, keelboat,
     ketch, knockabout, lateen, lateener, lorcha, lugger, nobby,
     ocean racer, outrigger, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue,
     pram, pungy, racing yacht, rigger, sailing auxiliary,
     sailing canoe, sailing dinghy, sailing packet, sailing trawler,
     sampan, sandbagger, schooner, scooter, shallop, sharpie,
     shipentine, skipjack, sloop, smack, smack boat, snow, tartan,
     topsail schooner, trimaran, well smack, whaler, wool-clipper,
     xebec, yacht, yawl