Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
galleon .
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Examples
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It don't go too fast, but it gets pretty good miles to the gallion.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2007
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And the second was for that M. Drake at his being at Maluco, caused two pieces of his ordinance to be shot at a gallion of the kings of Portugall, as they say.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And hauing ouercharged the artillery of the gallion, left her on fire, which burnt in terrible sort two dayes together, the fire and ouercharging of the pieces being so great, as of fifty that were in her, there were not aboue sixteene taken out whole; the rest with ouercharge of the powder being broken, and molten with heat of the fire, were taken out in broken pieces into diuers shippes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great gallion and an English Man of War: Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances.
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Overtaken by thick fogs and violent storms, Kruzenstern now hunted in vain for some islands marked on a map found on a Spanish gallion captured by Anson, and the existence of which had been alternately accepted and rejected by different cartographers, though they appear in
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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Portuguese gallion, coming from the West Indies, appeared before the city,
The Amulet Hendrik Conscience 1847
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And the second was for that M. Drake at his being at M.luco, caused two pieces of his ordinance to be shot at a gallion of the kings of Portugall, as they say.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And hauing ouercharged the artillery of the gallion, left her on fire, which burnt in terrible sort two dayes together, the fire and ouercharging of the pieces being so great, as of fifty that were in her, there were not aboue sixteene taken out whole; the rest with ouercharge of the powder being broken, and molten with heat of the fire, were taken out in broken pieces into diuers shippes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I would be suprise if fuel got back up to $4 a gallion.
unknown title 2009
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