society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > foreign (2)
A small galley or boat, propelled by sails and oars, used for swift navigation; in English applied esp. to Spanish and Mediterranean vessels.
Applied (loosely) to various kinds of foreign sailing and rowing vessels, as the galleon, galliot, etc. Obsolete except in poetic or rhetorical use.