GALLEOT
\ɡˈalɪˌɒt], \ɡˈalɪˌɒt], \ɡ_ˈa_l_ɪ__ˌɒ_t]\
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(Naut.) A bomb-ketch. See Ketch.
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(Naut.) A Dutch or Flemish trader, having a mainmast carrying a square mainsail and a mizzenmast far aft, very round in the ribs, and nearly flat-bottomed.
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(Naut.) A small (Galleon) galley, carrying one mast and from sixteen to twenty oars. All the men carried muskets, as she was designed for chasing only.
By Henry Percy Smith
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).