galleon
IPA: gˈæɫiʌn
noun
- A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.
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Examples of "galleon" in Sentences
- He captured a galleon.
- He came to Manila to engage in the galleon trade.
- Thus, she was called the Patroness of the Galleon.
- The badge depicts a galleon sailing across the ocean.
- Earl transforms the school into a galleon in the ocean.
- The Galleon Era ended in 1815 following the Mexican Revolution.
- Stingray arrives at the location where the galleon was last sighted.
- The galleon was another type of large ship that Champlain knew well.
- The Ferryboat story changed over time more often than the Lost Galleon story.
- Van Heemskerck would himself attack the Galleon of the Spanish admiral, Aviles.
- The story of the galleon started shortly after the Colorado river flood of 1862.
- The galleon was the _Mary of the Tower_, and she had a frightful list to starboard.
- Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
- Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
- Here, less than two decades after Drake, Sebastien Carmenon piled up on the rocks with a silk-laden galleon from the Philippines.
- The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as
- The modern connotation of "galleon" comes partly from the Armada, and partly from a later era, the 17th century, when a galleon was the Spanish equivalent of an Indiaman.
- At Tobermory, on the west of Scotland, a little handful of men have a strong faith that a sunken galleon from the Spanish Armada is the prison house of great treasure, and their faith is productive of an energy which makes zealous quest.
- In galleries, the galleon is installed against a painted map of the Tomales Bay excursion, early-modernified to look like an explorer's map, and showing the triangular route of the afternoon's trip, referring to the triangular routes of Manila galleons between San Francisco, the Philippines and Mexico.