1) Human-powered vehicle 2) Ship type 3) Venetian warship
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The galleass developed from large merchant galleys. Converted for military use they were higher, larger and slower than regular (`light`) galleys. They had up to 32 oars, each worked by up to 5 men. They usually had three masts and a forecastle and aftcastle. Much effort was made in Venice to make these galleasses as fast as possible to compete .....
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• (n.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.
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(from the article `naval ship`) The coming of mighty men-of-war did not mean the immediate end of oared warships. In fact, some types of galleys and oared gunboats continued to ...
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Gal'le·ass noun [ French
galéasse ,
galéace ; confer Italian
galeazza , Spanish
galeaza ; Late Latin
galea a galley. See
Galley .]
(Nautical) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the sou...
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The galleass or galliass was a masted galley, usually with three-tiers of guns used as a warship mainly in the Mediterranean from the 15th to the 18th centuries, but also used by the English. They were propelled by both sails and oars, and had between twenty and thirty-two seats for rowers, who on the continent were generally slaves, six or seven a...
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