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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
Noun
a large three-masted sailing ship used from the 15th to the 18th centuries [Spanish galeón]
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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
Spanish galleon [ˈgælɪən] n → galeón m
French galleon [ˈgælɪən] n → galion m
German galleon [ˈgælɪən] n → Galeone f
Italian galleon [ˈgælɪən] n → galeone m
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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.
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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.
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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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