▪ I. galliot1
(ˈgælɪət)
Forms: 4, 7 galiote, 5 galyet, 6 galyote, galyott, galliet(te, 7 galliote, galliott, 7–8 galeot, 8–9 galiot, (in Dicts.) galleot, 6– galliot. See also gallivat.
[a. F. galiote fem. (OF. also galiot masc.) = Sp. and Pg. galeota, It. galeotta, dim. of the Com. Rom. galea galley n.1]
1. A small galley or boat, propelled by sails and oars, used for swift navigation; in English applied esp. to Spanish and Mediterranean vessels.
| 1352 Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 65, Viij. and xl. galays and mo..And other many of galiotes, With grete noumber of smale botes. 1480 Caxton Descr. Brit. viii. xiv, Seven carryks of Gene, and fyfty other vessels, as hulkes, barges, galeys and galyetis. c 1500 in Arnolde's Chron. (1811) p. xxviii, Galyottis of Spayne with odir smale shippis of warre, come a londe at Grauesende. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. ii. (1599) 88 The hauen..conteined fiue ships, foure light galleis, a galliot, and a gallion. 1650 Fuller Pisgah v. xxi. 184 Those seventy lesser ships, and Galliots, brought..out of the Bosphorus. 1728 Morgan Algiers II. ii. 221 Some Turkish Merchants..built and armed out a Galeot, or Light-Gally. 1799 Nelson 11 Feb. in Nicolas Disp. (1846) III. 262 The Officer who is to command the Galliots and Gun-boats. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. i. 15 Cartier moved his two large vessels safely into the deep water of the river..and in his galiot sailed up the majestic stream. |
2. [In Du. galjoot.] A Dutch cargo-boat or fishing-vessel.
| 1794 Rigging & Seamanship I. 239 Galliot. Is a large Dutch vessel, of burthen, with one mast and a bowsprit. 1861 Thornbury Turner (1862) I. 263 The ships are the heavy one-masted Dutch galliots once common on the Thames. 1884 Mag. of Art Apr. 253/2 Now..almost any day, are to be seen..a little fleet of Dutch galliots. |
3. Used of ancient Roman vessels or galleys. ? Obs.
| 1718 Rowe tr. Lucan iii. 797 On either Wing the larger Vessels ply, While in the Center safe the lesser Galiots lie. c 1800 K. White Childhood ii. 165 The blood-fraught galliots of Rome. |
4. = bomb-ketch. [= F. galiote à bombes.]
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v. Galleot, Some also call the bomb-ketches galliots. |
5. Comb., as † galliot-hoy, † pink, yacht, small vessels resembling a Dutch galliot in build.
| 1665 Lond. Gaz. No. 12/1 Captain Robinson hath sent into Falmouth a *Galliot-Hoy, bound for Bordeaux. 1689 Ibid. No. 2496/4 A Galliot-Hoy..being seven Foot and a half under the Beam, 56 Foot in length. |
| Ibid. No. 2517/4 There will be exposed to Sale..a *Galliot Pink called the Mermaid of Amsterdam. 1709 Ibid. No. 4543/3 A Galliot Pink..burthen about 90 Tuns, Holland built. |
| a 1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiog. i. (1896) 5 He had a Dutch *galliot yacht..which used to cruise with the royal squadron. |
▪ II. † galliot2 Obs.
Forms: 5 galyot, 6 galyott, galliot, 7 galeyot, galeot.
[a. OF. galiot sailor in a galley, galley-slave, pirate = It. galeotto, med.L. galiotus, galeota, deriv. of galea galley.]
1. A pirate. rare.
| c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. (E.E.T.S.) 22 We come nat ynto thys land as hyryng men, ne for no couetyse of gold, ne of syluyr, ne galyotz ne robbers. |
2. A sailor or rower on board a galley, whether slave or free.
| 1506 Sir R. Guylforde Pilgr. (Camden) 15 In the whyche tyme the patrone, Galyottis, and pylgrimes, took in woode, water, &c. 1593 Munday Def. Contraries 84 See we not in the Gallies that they giue the Oare to the strongest and most mighty Galliots? 1612 Benvenuto's Passenger i. 73 Oh, now all begins to passe betweene the Galeot, and the Marriner. 1654 Cokaine Dianea iv. 350 Being informed of the fire..he..commanded it should be quenched, supposing it kindled by accident through the carelessnesse of the Galeyots, or Marriners. |