Galleon [noun]

Definition of Galleon:

a boat propelled with wind by sailcloth

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Sentence/Example of Galleon:

She is as white as the sail of the treasure-laden galleon as it enters the harbor of Cadiz.

And at the trail's end the unkempt, ribald crew swarmed their dark and dirty camp as a band of pirates a galleon.

If we shoaled the water much more we could not hope to force the heavy galleon through.

While we were endeavouring to repair the damage it fell a stark calm, and the old galleon began to roll away awfully in the swell.

I did not flatter myself so much because of my own merits, as on account of the richly-freighted old galleon.

Altogether I know in a very short time they lost one hundred and twenty men—while I had not lost one on board the galleon.

The expedition was a failure, so far as the capture of the galleon was concerned, for she fell into the hands of Commodore Anson.

Several galliasses, sent by the Spanish admiral to the rescue of the galleon, were nearly taken.

On the 25th, a vast galleon, dropping behind, was captured by Sir John Hawkins after a desperate resistance.

During this year 1539, the viceroy sent Ferdinand de Morales with a great galleon laden on the kings account to trade at Pegu.