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galbat

galbat is the alternative form of gallivat.

Meaning of gallivat

Noun

gallivat (plural gallivats)

  1. A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
    • [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

Forms of galbat

pluralgalbats

Questions about galbat

What is galbat the alternative form of?
Galbat is the alternative form of gallivat.

Words near galbat in the dictionary

  1. Galballys
  2. galban
  3. Galbans
  4. galbanum
  5. galbanums
  6. galbat
  7. galbats
  8. Galbavy
  9. Galbavys
  10. galbe
  11. Galben

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Adapted from Wiktionary: galbat (page history and authors); gallivat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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