galleass

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɡæli.æs/

Definition of galleass

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical)A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.
    “The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled& regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.”
    “[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.”

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Etymology

1540s, from Old French galleasse, from Italian galeaza ‘large galley’, from Latin galea.

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