gallivat

plural gallivats · alternative galbat · alternative galivat · alternative gallevat · alternative gallowet · alternative gallouet · alternative jalia

1. nauticalA small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.

   1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary Volume 18, on Sir William James At one time when he had near seventy sail under his protection, he was assailed by a large fleet of Angria’s frigates and gallivats […]

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   [They] found them next Morning out of Sight, excepting a Ketch and some few Gallivats, (small sort of Vessels something like the Feluccas of the Mediterranean, and hoists, like them, triangular Sails.)

   1724, Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates, page 126