Meaning Of The Word Galleon

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galleon
countable noun: A galleon is a sailing ship with three masts. Galleons were used mainly in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.

galleon in American English
a large sailing ship with three or four masts and a high forecastle and stern, developed in the 15th and 16th cent., and used as both a warship and a trader
noun: a large sailing vessel of the 15th to the 17th centuries used as a fighting or merchant ship, square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and generally lateen-rigged on one or two after masts

galleon in British English
noun: a large sailing ship having three or more masts, lateen-rigged on the after masts and square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast, used as a warship or trader from the 15th to the 18th centuries

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