Galliot

The galliot is the feet and hands of these islands, and that which serves as a caracoa; for, glory be to God, the Meldicas [_sic; sc. _ mestizos] and native Christians are wanting to me. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

From the galliot, our navigators got a small quantity of pitch, tar, cordage, and twine, and a hundred and forty skins of flour, containing 13,782 lbs. English. ❋ Unknown (2003)

On the morning of the 10th, a Russian galliot, from Okotzk, was towed into the harbour. ❋ Unknown (2003)

By the time anyone else came in, Marco was at his desk, copying the inventories from the galliot Albiona into the appropriate books. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

Rumors were circulating that a small galliot had arrived from down-gulf, bringing news of the blockading fleets. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

She had it easier than the galliot captain, however. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

Moreover we were afraid of meeting on that course one of the galliots that usually come with goods from Tetuan; although each of us for himself and all of us together felt confident that, if we were to meet a merchant galliot, so that it were not a cruiser, not only should we not be lost, but that we should take a vessel in which we could more safely accomplish our voyage. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New ❋ Unknown (2002)

Our friend, who is a feather-headed chatterbox, is enormously important about his ridiculous little port, whose principal customer seems to be the Langeoog post-boat, a galliot running to and fro according to tide. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

'We weighed anchor at one o'clock, and in passing the anchored galliot took a good look at her. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

She was what is called a "barge-yacht", of fifty or sixty tons, built for shallow water on the lines of a Dutch galliot, with lee-boards and those queer round bows and square stern. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

But now look at the sands they run through, intersected, as I showed you, by threads of channels, tidal for the most part, and probably only known to smacks and shallow coasters, like that galliot of Bartels. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

Carruthers, this is my friend, Schiffer Bartels, of the galliot Johannes. ' ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

They supposed he was bringing cargo in his galliot from Wilhelmshaven, all the company's plant and stores coming from that port. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

So did the galliot we had seen last night, but we again missed identifying her, as she weighed anchor before we came up to her berth. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

It was explained when I went on deck, and I found the Dulcibella wrapped in a fog, silent, clammy, nothing visible from her decks but the ghostly hull of a galliot at anchor near us. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

'A galliot passed us, going west, just as we were stowing sails; too dark to see her name. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)

The twins (for such they proved to be) were most benignant giants, and asked us aboard the post-boat galliot for a chat. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)