galleon – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
galleon
n.
large sailing ship (used from 15th to 17th century as a warship or merchant ship)
Galleon
A
galleon was a large, multi-decked
sailing ship used primarily by
European states from the 16th to 18th centuries.
galleon
Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) sailing vessel, sailing ship
(hyponym) carrack, carack
Galleon
(n.)
A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
galleon
Synonyms and related words:
bark, bawley, bilander, brig, brigantine, bully, buss, caravel, cat, catamaran, clipper, corsair, corvette, cutter, dandy, dhow, dromond, fishing smack, flattie, four-masted bark, four-master, frigate, galiot, galleass, hooker, hoy, ice yacht, junk, keelboat, ketch, knockabout, lateen, lateener, lorcha, lugger, nobby, ocean racer, outrigger, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, pram, pungy, racing yacht, rigger, sailing auxiliary, sailing canoe, sailing dinghy, sailing packet, sailing trawler, sampan, sandbagger, schooner, scooter, shallop, sharpie, shipentine, skipjack, sloop, smack, smack boat, snow, tartan, topsail schooner, trimaran, well smack, whaler, wool-clipper, xebec, yacht, yawl
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
