galiot, galliot (galiot)

[Also galeot, formerly galleot, galeote; The whole Nauie there meeting together, were 254. tall shippes, and aboue threescore galliots . Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 24. Certain galliots of Turks laying aboard of certain ve els of Venice. Capt. Roger Bodenham (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 37). There are several fine arsenals about it (the port of Can dial, which are arched over, in order to build or lay up ships or galeotes, though many of them have been destroyed. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 258. 2. An old Dutch or Flemish ve el for cargoes, with very much rounded ribs and a flattish bottom, a mizzenmast placed near the stern carrying a square mainsail and maintopsail, and a forestay to the mainmast (there being no foremast), with forestaysail and jibs.-3. A bomb ketch. 2436