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GALEASSE

Volume 9 · 83 words · 1815 Edition

a large low-built-vefsel, in which both sails and oars are used, and the largest of all the veffels that make use of the latter. It may carry twenty guns, and has a stern capable of lodging a great number of marines. It has three masts, which are never to be lowered or taken down. It has also thirty-two benches of rowers; and to each bench fix or seven flaves, who sit under cover. This veffel is at prefent ufed only by the Venetians.