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galleon

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gal·le·on  (gl-n, glyn)
n.
A large three-masted sailing ship with a square rig and usually two or more decks, used from the 15th to the 17th century especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.

[Spanish galeon, from Old Spanish, augmentative of galea, galley, from Old French galie; see galley.]

galleon [ˈgælɪən]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical a large sailing ship having three or more masts, lateen-rigged on the after masts and square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast, used as a warship or trader from the 15th to the 18th centuries
[from Spanish galeón, from French galion, from Old French galie galley]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.galleongalleon - 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
carack, carrack - a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
sailing ship, sailing vessel - a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
Translations
galleon [ˈgælɪən] Ngaleón m

galleon [ˈgæliən] ngalion m

galleon
nGaleone f

galleon [ˈgælɪən] ngaleone m
galleon [ˈgælɪən] ngaleone m

galleon
n galleon [ˈgӕliən]
in former times, a large, usually Spanish, sailing-ship. galjoen غَلْيون: سَفينَه حَرْبِيَّه испански кораб galéra galeon die Galleone γαλιόνι (τύπος ιστιοφόρου πλοίου) galeón galeoon گالیون kaljuuna galion אֳנִייַת מִפרָשִׂים סְפָרַדִית दीर्घ नौका galija gálya kapal bangsa Spanyol galleón galeone ガリオン船 갈레온 배(15-19세기의 스페인의 전투, 무역용 대형 범선) galeonas galjona (viduslaiku spāņu burukuģis) geliung galjoen gallion galeon galeão galion галеон galeóna galeja galion gallion เรือใบขนาดใหญ่แบบหนึ่ง kalyon 四班牙大帆船 галеон اسپانوی جنگی جہاز thuyền buồm lớn


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It seems that an old bookworm who has a book and curio shop in Baltimore discovered between the leaves of a very old Spanish manuscript a letter written in 1550 detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with a vast treasure of "doubloons" and "pieces of eight," I suppose, for they certainly sound weird and piraty.
No sooner had he spoken than the English sailors knew that they had found the very spot where the Spanish galleon had been wrecked, so many years before.
They tell me there's a Spanish galleon there, and a Dutch warship, besides a score or more of fishing-boats.
 
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