galleass

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Definition von galleass im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A type of rowable vessel similar to but larger than galleys used in 16th and 17th century. A galleass was normally equipped with sails

large high-sided galley that was especially popular in the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, it had three Latin masts and three orders of artillery, and could hold up to 1,200 men

A type of vessel similar to but larger than galleys

such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries

See Galleon, and Galley

A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp

A large, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th century

{i} large and fast warship with three masts (used in the Mediterranean in the 16th and 17th centuries)

Silbentrennung

gal·le·ass

Etymologie

[ 'ga-lE-&s ] (noun.) 1544. Middle French galeasse, from Old French galie galley.