galleon (gale on)

[F. galion, The forts here could not secure the Spanish galleons from Admiral Blake, tho' they hall'd in close under the main fort. Dampier , Voyages, an. 1699. The harbors of Spanish America were at the same time visited by their [English] privateers in pursuit of the rich galleons of Spain. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 68. The galleons were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy ve els, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles. Motley . Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built gal leons came. Tennyson, The Revenge. galleott, n. See galiot . galler (gâl'er), n. One who or that which galls. Galleria, n. See Galeria . galleriant, n. [F. galérien , galère , a galley: see galley .] A galley-slave. Davies . The prerogative of a private centinel above a slave lies only in the name, and the advantage, if any, stands for the gallerian . Gentleman Instructed , p. 183. galleried (gal'e-rid), a . [ gallery + -ed2.] Provided or fitted with a gallery; disposed like a gallery. One of the galleried fronts of an old London inn. Colonial and Indian Exhibition , 1886.