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galivat

galivat 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 galivat

pluralgalivats

Questions about galivat

What is galivat the alternative form of?
Galivat is the alternative form of gallivat.

Words near galivat in the dictionary

  1. galiums
  2. galivant
  3. galivanted
  4. galivanting
  5. galivants
  6. galivat
  7. galivats
  8. galiximab
  9. Galiza
  10. Galizan
  11. galizona

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