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gallivats

gallivats is the plural 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

Questions about gallivats

What is gallivats the plural of?
Gallivats is the plural of gallivat.

Words near gallivats in the dictionary

  1. gallivantin'
  2. gallivanting
  3. gallivantings
  4. gallivants
  5. gallivat
  6. gallivats
  7. gallivorous
  8. galliware
  9. galliwasp
  10. galliwasps
  11. gallization

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