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GALLEOT

Volume 7 · 72 words · 1797 Edition

a small galley designed only for chase, carrying but one mast and two pateraeos; it can both sail and row, and has 16 or 20 oars. All the seamen on board are soldiers, and each has a musket by him on quitting his oar.

GALLERY, in architecture, a covered place in a house, much longer than broad, and usually in the wings of a building; its use being chiefly to walk in.