or GALLIOT, a small galley or large felucca, used chiefly in the Mediterranean. Galliot also denotes a peculiar kind of flat-bottomed vessel, very strongly timbered, used as a bomb-ship against forts and batteries. Bomb-ketch is likewise applied by the Dutch, Swedes, and other northern nations, to a strong-built trading vessel, rounded at stem and stern, and registering from 200 to 300 tons.