Galliot, a Dutch vessel carrying a main and a mizzen mast, and a large gaff-mainsail. Galliot—strong-built, flat-bottomed ships—of 400 to 500 tons burden, were formerly used also as bomb-vessels. The word is ultimately a diminutive of Low Lat. galea, 'a galley.'
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 66
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