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Galleot, or galliot
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
A small galley designed only for chase, generally carrying but one mast, with sixteen or twenty oars. all the seamen on board act as soldiers, and each has a musket by him ready for use on quitting his oar. also, a dutch or flemish vessel for cargoes, with very rounded ribs and flattish bottom, with a mizen-mast stept far aft, carrying a square-mainsail and main-topsail, a fore-stay to the main-mast (there being no fore-mast), with fore-staysail and jibs. some also call the bomb-ketches galliots. (see scampavia.)
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Gallery of a mine, английский
The passage of horizontal communication, as distinguished from the shaft or vertical descent, made underground by military miners to reach the required position, for lodging the charge, &c.; it averages 4-1/2 feet high by 3 feet wide.
Galleon, or galion, английский
A name formerly given to ships of war furnished with three or four batteries of cannon. it is now retained only by the spaniards, and applied to the largest size of their merchant ships employed in west india and vera cruz voyages. the portuguese also have ships trading to india and the brazils nearly resembling the galleons, and called caragues. (see carack.)
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